If history of a new land is in your top concern for a journey, the Khmer museum is surely a must-visit place when you make a trip to Soc Trang Province, the Mekong Delta. The Khmer Museum displays dozens of valuable artifacts, presenting the cultural and spiritual life of the ethnic community of Khmer from generation to generation. Something you find out for a visit there is traditional costumes, models of houses, pagodas, and musical instruments.

How to get to the Khmer museum from Ho Chi Minh City

To reach the Khmer museum, what you must do first is to find ways to Soc Trang Province. It’s easy to do that since bus lines to Soc Trang are always available at Mien Tay Bus Station – 395 Kinh Duong Vuong Street, An Lac Ward, Binh Tan District.

Upon arrival in Soc Trang City, Soc Trang Province, you’ll find out the central market. The Khmer Museum is two minutes’ walk from this market. The museum is opposite Kh’leang Pagoda and situated at 53 Ton Duc Thang Street, Ward 6, Long Phu Town, Soc Trang City.

An alternative to get to the Khmer museum from Ho Chi Minh City is to take a tour to the Mekong Delta. A plus point of the tour is that you not only visit the Khmer museum, but also explore other fascinating spots in Soc Trang Province, such as Nga Nam Floating Market, Bat Pagoda, Tan Long Stork Sanctuary, Kh’leang Pagoda, and My Phuoc Island.

What are inside the Khmer museum?

Erected in 1938, the Khmer museum was formed by two zones. The exhibition zone is the Xamacum Assembly House and the office zone. The museum displays countless precious artifacts, offering you an outlook on the spiritual and cultural life of the Khmer community.

The Khmer community has a population of over one million and is portrayed through two cultural museums; one is in Tra Vinh and the other is in Soc Trang. If you pay a visit to the museum in Soc Trang, what you will see comprise collections of Black masks, costumes, musical instruments, sets, books of leaf, and many other things of Khmer culture. This visit entitles you to obtain more understanding of the Khmer community and know why it has become a crucial part in the population of Soc Trang Province.

In Soc Trang Province, there are plenty of spots for sightseeing, but you certainly visit Khmer Museum because of values it brings back. You will realize that the Khmer people have a high aesthetic mind whereby they could simulate real life to make their own cultural beauty and create elaborate traditional family items and production tools for life. This shows that they have great skills as expert artisans.

Source: tnktravel