Museum attendance numbers rebounding with Covid rules lifted

via Phnom Penh Post, 19 July 2022: Positive uptick in the post-covid period.

Officials of the Department of Museums under the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts are urging students to visit the National Museum and the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum to better understand the culture and history of Cambodia.

Currently there are 80 to 120 tourists a day who visits these museums, most of them domestic, according to Chhay Visoth, director of the museums department.

Visoth told The Post on July 18 that after the government announced the socio-economic reopening of the country at the end of last year, tourists had been returning to visit the preserved artefacts at the two museums.

“Before July, there were as few as 50 visitors to the National Museum each day. Now, there are as many as 120 – mostly at the weekend,” he added.

Visoth said that due to the government’s opening of the borders, the number of foreign tourists has increased, although they had not reached their pre-pandemic numbers.

Source: Museum attendance numbers rebounding with Covid rules lifted | Phnom Penh Post