Cambodia Land Mine Museum

 

Who we are
I want to make my country safe for my people

The Cambodia Landmine Museum was opened in 1999 to promote mine awareness and education for both tourists and Cambodian people. Landmines will likely be a problem in Cambodia for many years to come. Through awareness, safety, and prevention, we strive to protect Cambodian communities from further suffering and devastation.

A new and bigger museum, scheduled for opening in 2007, will be renamed the Cambodia Landmine Museum, Prevention and Rehabilitation Centre, a Canadian-founded NGO working to expand Aki Ra's humanitarian mandate and vision for a safe and prosperous Cambodia. It is supported by UNESCO, the Canadian Government, and Her Excellency Donica Pottie Canadian Ambassador to Cambodia.

What we do

Our activities include providing education and training to rural people about landmine safety, clearing mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) from various provinces in Cambodia, and training soldiers to deactivate and clear landmines and UXO from the countryside. We also provide livelihood support for soldiers working in de-mining and their families, and a home and school at the Museum for child survivors of landmines. Through all our activities, we work to ensure that Cambodia will one day become free of landmines and UXO. To help support our activities, we have established a not-for-profit relief fund which enabled us to build the new facility, which will continue to house exhibits of landmines and unexploded ordinance and offer on-site educational programming. It will also employ educators to travel to mined communities to teach adults and children about landmine safety. The museum will provide a school and a newer, larger dormitory for child landmine survivors, and prosthetic limb rehabilitation for landmine victims.

What you can experience

Find out a wide variety of information regarding mines and UXO.
For the more interested visitor, you can watch (and buy) a short DVD explaining about landmines and UXO, the effects on communities and Aki Ra's efforts in Cambodia.
We display a large collection of guns, rifles, rocket launchers, pistols, mortars, grenades, CS gas canisters, bombs, bullets and a 225kg bomb from a US warplane, all recovered from Cambodia countryside.

Come and walk through our garden, full of deactivated, hidden mines, and challenge yourself by searching for them.

Contact your hotel, guesthouse or tour operator for more information.

Located 30 km from Siem Reap town, on the way to Banteay Srey temple (on the right hand side)
Phone: 855-92-917-003 or 855-12-598-951
Box 197 Bayfield, Ontario, N0M 1GO, Canada
Email:info@cambodialandminemuseum.org
www.cambodialandminemuseum.org

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