Angkor Conservation

Angkor Conservation (Conservation d'Angkor) is the office in Siem Reap (សៀមរាប) that keeps sculpture from the temples of Angkor (អង្គរ).

Illustration, as an impression, of carved sandstone fragments kept under a roof.

Organization details
Alternative names	Conservation d'Angkor; Angkor Conservation Office
Focus areas	conservation of Angkor; storage of sculpture
City	Siem Reap
Country	Cambodia
Address	Siem Reap, Cambodia

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1. Curators and archives
2. 1990s
3. Storage in 2022
4. References

On this page

1. Curators and archives
2. 1990s
3. Storage in 2022
4. References

Curators and archives

Its archives, from 1908 to 1992, include excavation reports by Angkor's curators, among them Jean Commaille, Henri Marchal, Georges Trouvé and Bernard-Philippe Groslier. Work stopped in 1973. In 1916 Marchal took charge of the work at Angkor; he became its curator in 1919 and left the post in 1933. Later he returned as curator in place of Maurice Glaize for six more years. In 2021 the École française d'Extrême-Orient was digitizing the archives.

1990s

In 1993 a gang stole Angkorian statues from the government store in Siem Reap town. A newspaper report of September 8, 1993, called the thieves suspected Khmer Rouge soldiers. Around 1993 and 1994, when illegal digging was at its height, the office gathered statues from the temple sites.

Storage in 2022

In 2022 the Angkor Conservation Office was under the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts (ក្រសួងវប្បធម៌ និងវិចិត្រសិល្បៈ). A survey that January found 16 of the more than 30 inventoried pieces from Ta Nei in its storage; most of the missing pieces were small, such as the hands or feet of statues. At least two others were in the National Museum of Cambodia (សារមន្ទីរជាតិកម្ពុជា).

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