Our tour of the city took us to the French downtown where we saw the typical French type architecture in the Post Office Building and the National Museum as well as other governmental type structures.
The museum was very interesting, chiefly because of the guide we had. She told us that the museum had been looted during Pol Pot’s time but that many of the treasures are gradually being returned to the museum from private collectors around the globe as well as from some governments, chiefly France. The building looks rather like the Cham Museum built by the French in Da Nang with the same open-air construction around a central patio area. There were many fascinating pieces from the ancient times and arts & crafts works of more current vintage aswell.
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