Archaeological restoration museum exhibition set May 18-28

via Phnom Penh Post, 20 May 2023: The APSARA National Authority has organized an exhibition at the Preah Norodom Sihanouk-Angkor Museum, where the public can observe experts cleaning and processing some 1,055 archaeological artifacts excavated from the Srah Srang reservoir. The exhibition will be open from May 18 to 28 during regular visiting hours.

APSARA National Authority (ANA) has invited the public to see how excavated archaeological artefacts are cleaned and processed, at an exhibition featuring 1,055 such items set to be on display at Preah Norodom Sihanouk-Angkor Museum from May 18-28.

ANA experts will be cleaning and processing the items in front of museum visitors, according to a May 18 social media post by the ANA, the governmental body in charge of the Angkor Archaeological Park.

The artefacts were excavated around the southwestern dam of the Srah Srang water reservoir, it noted.

Be Sinuon, a technical expert at the ANA’s Department of Conservation of Monuments and Preventive Archaeology, said most of the thousand-odd artefacts are linked to Buddhism and dated to between the 12th century and post-Angkor period.

Source: Archaeological restoration museum exhibition set May 18-28 | Phnom Penh Post