The Angkor Ceramic Museum of Tany Village, Banteay Srey District, Siem Riep Province was inaugurated for official use

On 15 December 2009, in Siem Riep province, H.E. Dr. SOK AN, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister in charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers and chairman of APSARA and the Delegation of ICC of 15 nations for conservation and development of historical area of Angkor and 200 foreign delegates and ambassadors inaugurated for official use of the ceramic museum of Angkor in Tany village, Banteay Srey district which is situated about 20 Kms East of Siem Riep City with the participation of Tany Villagers, Siem Riep province. 

H.E. Deputy Prime Minister stressed that Tany village is the Former Ceramic Production Center of Khmer antiques from 9 century to 15 century in the Angkor period.

 H.E. Deputy Prime Minister also highlighted that the Tany village ceramic museum of Angkor is valuable not only for Tany villagers but also for the whole nation and national culture. H.E. SOK AN added that this museum will provide a lot of benefits to villagers once the visitors come to visit there. Specially, Tany village Ceramic museum of Angkor will connect Tany village to the area of Angkor Temple and also closely link to the livelihood of the people there.

 H.E. Bun Narith, Director-General of APSARA, said on that occasion that the Tany village ceramic museum of Angkor was built since June 2007 under the auspices of the Japanese ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia that provided USD 37,391.00 and also the budget of the Royal Government of Cambodia under the leadership of Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN of USD 37,375.00.

H.E. Bun Narith underlined that today’s achievement stemmed from the attention made by the Cambodian Royal Government as well as the APSARA, particularly, the assistance provided by the Nara Institute and Sophia University of Japan from 1996 until today for the ceramic research work. According to the APSARA, the ceramics of 5 groups were excavated and discovered within the village ancient furnace.

 Professor Hiroshi Sugiyama, Director-General of Nara Institute, highlighted that this is the first ancient ceramic research in Cambodia under the cooperation with APSARA. Mr. Professor stressed that the research of ancient furnace in the Tany village is the right research in compliance with the scientific criteria and also with participation of young Cambodian researchers.

 H.E. MASAFUMI KUROKI, the Japanese Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia appreciated that these achievements would be the symbol of good cooperation between the Kingdom of Japan and the Kingdom of Cambodia in the conservation and development of world heritages in Cambodia.

 Press and Quick Reaction Unit