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The walls encircling the Royal Palace is the most ancient part of the building. Decorated with frescoes and reliefs of scenes from the Ramayana, Khmer version. Red-red building of the National Museum is located next to the Royal Palace and the Institute of Fine Arts (National Museum). The museum is open daily from 08:00-17:00 The museum was built by the French in the 17-20 years of XX century. He is the principal museum of the country. Here, gathered by a huge collection (about 6000 pieces), most of which belongs to the Angkor period. The most valuable museum exhibits is a statue of the Leper King of Cambodia from Angkor Wat, a statue of the god Vishnu, and part of the pediment Banteay Srey. There are also materials on the history of Cambodia and the Khmer national dress. The main entrance to the museum by Art Street, where your attention will be submitted to a collection of paintings by contemporary artists, if you want that you can buy at a reasonable price.

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On the street around the museum are some small hotels (hotel photo) souvenir shops, cafes and restaurants, as well as art galleries. The area between the Royal Palace and the river is called "Sisowath Kwai"  "the heart of Phnom Penh, the most favorite place in the capital and main place of King speeches.

If you are interested in antiques, costumes, souvenirs, silver and relatively low prices then you should definitely visit the markets of the Dog-O-Rassi, Dog-Kandal, Dog-Chan, Dog-Horacio.

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A truly terrible and awful impression the place called "Museum of Genocide" or "Tuol Sleng". He is in jail (the former school building), where during the reign of Pol Pot held accounting and torture in interrogations of prisoners. From this terrible building more than 2000 prisoners were sent to Choeung-Ek "(" The Killing Fields ") is 15 km south-west of the city centre is a place where executions were carried prisoners Tuol Sleng. Those times remind us mass graves, where the number and kind of buried penalty. In the heart of Choeung Ek installed glass stela, nutria in which the shelves are skulls of executed, spread out on the basis of age and sex. January 7 of each year, held a commemorative ceremony dedicated to the victims of that terrible time.