Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum at Cambodia

Introduction

The entrance of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

In 1975, Tuol Svay Pray was a high school under Khmer Rouge but has been turned into Tuol Sleng Genocide prison or known as Security Prison 21 (S-21). The building was used as a torture facility and for detention people. Now, it was become as a museum.

About

At the building have almost 6,000 portraits to show the visitors all a story about the prisoners.  All the images are very horror. Each prisoner who passed through S-21 was photographed before and after being tortured.14,000 people known to have entered the prison but only seven was survived. Khmer Rouge torture manuals discouraged torture that ended with death. The building has four main buildings known as Building A, B, C, and D. Building A holds the large cells in which the bodies of the last victims were discovered. Building B provide galleries of photographs. Building C holds the rooms sub-divided into small cells for prisoners. Building D holds other memorabilia including instruments of torture. Today, this museum is really essential for educational site because many school students make a tour to the museum.

The building

Gallery

Photos of the prisoners

Cabinet with human skulls

Shackles used on prisoners

A cells

Admission

$3.00/person.

Open every day, including holidays 8:00am-5:00pm.

How to get there

Address :

Corner of Street 113 and Street 350

4.3 km from Wat Phnom

Bali Shell Museum

BALI SHELL MUSEUM

"This shell museum deserves for being kept continually! Human must always appreciate THE MASTER PIECE OF THIS NATURE. Only by loving and closing to the nature - including these SHELL creatures, we participate in keeping and preserving the NATURE it self."

-Ibu Mega, Indonesian 5th President-

Bali Shell Museum, which opened in 2009 as the only establishment in the Indonesian archipelago that houses shell varieties of unimaginable shapes and sizes, including 100-year-old fossilized specimens and items converted into fine art. It gathers a vast collection of seashells from Indonesia and all over the world, there are around 10,000 shells and over 100 ancient fossils housed under its roof – the result of dedication and a lifelong passion of its founder. Whether you’re a oncologist or not, the Bali Shell Museum will keep you amused and amazed for hours.

The first floor is a gorgeously laid out gallery with a trove of lamps, home ware and accessories from shells and mother-of-pearl, and it’s where most of the exquisite items here are available for purchase. Move up to the second floor, the collection expands to display ancient fossils of all sorts and sizes, including extinct Madagascan cephalopods estimated to be over 300,000,000 years old. These, with large specimens of extinct marine invertebrates, ammonites, trilobites and a giant fossil with a diameter that exceeds your arm span (said to be Asia’s largest) make this part of the museum the equivalent of a walk through the triceratops and brontosaurus section of a palaeontology museum. On the third floor there’s even more colourful and exotic shells to admire, with specimens comprising sea urchins, a multitude of preserved sea creatures including starfish, sharks, and the small and shiny Monetaria moneta or money cowry, which, as its name implies, once served as money in ancient times. Several glass displays containing the neatly arranged shells look like aquariums – without the water.

To visit Bali Shell Museum

Opening Hours: 09:30 – 21:30 

Location: Jalan Sunset Road 819, Kuta 
Tel: +62 (0)361 752 932 

BANGKOK NATIONAL MUSEUM

INTRODUCTION

The Bangkok National Museum is the main branch museum of the National Museums in Thailand and also the largest museum in Southeast Asia. It features exhibits of Thai art and history. The museum is located in 4 Na Phra That, Bangkok 10200, Thailand, occupying the former palace of the vice king on the northwest corner of Sanam Luang square.

The museum was established and opened in 1874 by King Rama IV's rile. today the galleries contain exhibits covering Thai History back to Neolitics times. The collection includes The King Ram Khamhaeng inscription. Other than preserving and displaying Thai artifacts dated from Dvaravati, Srivijaya, to Sukhothai and Ayutthaya period, the museum also displaying extensive collections of regional Asian Buddhist Arts such as Indian Gandhara, Chinese Tang, Vietnamese cham, IndonesianJava, and Cambodian Khmer arts.

The Decorative Arts and Ethnological Collection which is displayed in the old central palace buildings. This collection contains a variety if artistic, cultural and ethnographic exhibits such as gold treasure and precious stones, mother of pearl inlay, royal emblems and insignia, costumes and textiles, ceramics, carved ivory, old royal transportation, old weapons and musical instrument.

Malay Technology Museum

the Malay Technology Museum is located at kota baru and in the capital city Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei Muara District Brunei. it is situated next to the Brunei Museum. the building was donated by the royal Dutch / Shell group of companies in conjunction with the Sultanate's Independence in 1984. the museum was officially opened by His Majesty the sultan on 29 february 1988. the featuring is shows how things were done in ancient time which are displays in boat making, fishing, metalworking and goldsmithing

the museum has 3 exhibition halls = 

•           Water Village Traditional Technology      Gallery: 
•      This gallery shows various types of handicrafts and cottage industries found in the water village.it  includes boat construction, roof-making, gold smiting, silver smiting, brass casting and cloth weaving.

             Inland Traditional Technology       Gallery: 

        

             This gallery contains exhibits of indigenous technologies of the in land people. It shows models of Kedayan, Dusun and Murut houses and a Punan hut. Techniques of production of Sago, brown sugar and handicrafts are also displayed

         

Water Village Traditional House Gallery: 

      This gallery shows architectural structure of houses in the water village - Kampong Ayer in the late 19th up to the mid 20th century.