Aki Ra, founder of the Cambodia Landmine Museum near Siem Reap, who has cleared over 50,000 landmines by hand

Cambodia Landmine Museum · Siem ReapEvery field should be
safe to cross.

Aki Ra was a child soldier, made to lay these mines. Today he's a CNN Hero who has cleared more than 50,000 by hand. Decades on, the work isn't finished — help us see it through.

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50,000+Mines cleared by hand
20+Schools built
3,000+Children educated
2010CNN Top 10 Hero
The reality

Cambodia remains one of the most heavily mined countries on earth.

Every year

Dozens of civilians are still injured or killed by mines left behind from the fighting.

Everywhere

They lie in backyards, in the rice fields where people work, and on the roads where children walk to school.

For decades

Millions have been cleared — but Cambodia will not be entirely free of landmines for years to come.

Our founder

The boy who was made to lay mines now spends his life taking them back.

As a child during the Khmer Rouge, Aki Ra was made a soldier and taught to plant landmines across his own country. When the fighting finally stopped, he went back to the same villages — and began digging them out of the earth, at first with little more than a knife and a stick.

The museum he built tells that story, and funds the demining and education work that still goes on today. For it, CNN named him a Hero.

CNN Hero Founded by Aki Ra Siem Reap, Cambodia
Aki Ra with a fellow de-miner standing in a cleared minefield, 'Danger!! Mines!!' markers behind them
One mine lifted from the ground is one family that can walk home safely.
— The work of the Relief Fund
Museum de-miners running a mine-risk education session for village children under a tree, showing a banner of anti-tank and anti-personnel mines
The museum

It's more than a museum.

Visit to understand the wars Cambodia endured and the aftermath still reverberating through the country today — told through the defused mines Aki Ra has pulled from the ground himself, and through his own story.

Walk it at your own pace with a self-guided audio tour, or arrange a personal tour in Khmer or English. Every visit and every donation goes directly toward clearing the land and keeping families safe.

Self-guided audio tours Personal tours · KH / EN
Plan your visit

Right on the Banteay Srei road — no detour, no extra trip.

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Hours
Open every day, 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Entry
$7.00 foreign adults · $2.50 Khmer adults
Children under 13 free · cash preferred
Tours
Self-guided audio via QR throughout the museum
Personal tours in Khmer or English — please arrange 48 hours ahead
Getting there
Directly on the road to the Banteay Srei temple
Pair it with your Angkor day — any tuk-tuk passes right by
Contact
landminemuseum89@gmail.com
Aki Ra ·
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Arkuon. Thank you.

For your time, your visit, and your generosity — from all of us at the Cambodian Landmine Museum Relief Fund.

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The Relief Fund

The Cambodian Landmine Museum Relief Fund (CLMMRF)
67, Phumi Khna 93084 SR Angkor,
Siem Reap Province, Cambodia

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