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The Queen Mother Library (QML)

A Joint Genocide Museum and Research Institute in Phnom Penh

1) The Library
2) Museum of Memory and Healing
3) Hall of Contemporary Arts
4) School of Genocide, Conflict and Human Rights Studies
5) Research and National Policy Development Center

1) The Library
Currently housed adjacent to their offices in Phnom Penh, DC-Cam’s library holds special significance for Youk and DC-Cam. The current library is an intimate, inviting space, adorned with elegantly framed photos, original Zaha Hadid design drawings for the QML, ancient pottery objects, and even a vintage, functional record player spinning recordings of Cambodian music. The intimacy of DC-Cam’s library belies the vast scope of its holdings, the largest collection of genocide-related materials in Southeast Asia. The QML will provide a new home for the thousands of paper documents, photographs, films, interview transcripts and maps that comprise DC-Cam’s ever-expanding collection. Along with print materials, the library will include a built-in multi-media facility with computer stations, a digital library of archived materials, and access to online journals. Structurally, the library interlocks with a museum and connects, via a bridge, to a proposed school (see below). Connected to other buildings within the broader QML complex, the library provides a visual metaphor for the centrality of research, learning, and reflection to the mission of DC-Cam, and a fitting tribute in the new context to the beloved Queen Mother.

2) Museum of Memory and Healing
A museum will provide exhibition space for Cambodian art and artifacts, from antiquity to the DK period and into modernity and the contemporary era. The museum will house, conserve, and display objects from the Khmer empire, documents, testimonials, and objects associated with the KR regime, and contemporary works of art from emerging and established Cambodian artists. The museum will provide a space for DC-Cam to collaborate with museums and galleries, both within Cambodia around the world, to curate and host exhibitions of genocide related art and artifacts.

3) Hall of Contemporary Arts
An auditorium will provide event space for dance, music, and theatrical performances, and for academic lectures and other presentations related to DC-Cam’s vision of memory, justice, and healing. DC-Cam describes the auditorium as a space in which “a sense of openness prevails…allowing events to use both indoor and outdoor space when weather permits.” Here too, the open design of the auditorium, mediating between inside and outside, speaks the logic of its function: an inviting space for people to come together, share cultural understanding, and strengthen community.

4) School of Genocide, Conflict and Human Rights Studies
The QML integrates expansive spaces for ‘classroom’ learning into the design structure, while more intimate, ‘void spaces’ foster “chance interactions and cultivate an atmosphere of study throughout the complex.” DC-Cam envisions the educational function of the school as one in which future generations will learn the “history of the past and the values of the future.” There, scholars from Cambodia and around the world will collaborate to “craft strategies and policies oriented toward the creation of a future of increased understanding, empathy and justice.”

5) Research and National Policy Development Center
DC-Cam’s extensive archive of original KR documents will be situated, appropriately enough, at the center of the QML design. Here too, the placement of the archive provides a poetic visual metaphor for the centrality of these documents to DC-Cam’s founding mission. DC-Cam describes the archive as a “regional hub” for scholars to “engage in diverse research projects designed to impact policymaking at the national, regional and international levels.” DC-Cam will house its press facility in the proposed Center, building on its legacy as a long-term publisher of books about DK, and of its in-house magazine Searching for the Truth.

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Visitors Photos at the Queen Mother Library in November 2024

Visitors Photos at the Queen Mother Library in October 2024

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Visitors Photos at the Queen Mother Library in December 2024

Visitors Photos at the Queen Mother Library in September 2023

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Visitors Photos at the Queen Mother Library in February 2023

Visitors Photos at the Queen Mother Library in January 2023

Gillian Murphy Visits to the Queen Mother Library, December 21, 2022

Michele and Maria of Zaha​ Hadid Architects (ZHA) Visit the Queen Mother Library and Wat Langka, December 10, 2022

The Emergence of Global Maoism: China’s Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949–1979 by Matthew Galway, December 9, 2022

Ms. Ann Mills-Griffiths, Chairman of the Board/CEO, National League of POW/MIA Families Visits The Queen Mother Library of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, December 5, 2022

French Senators Visit to the Queen Mother Library, December 1, 2022

King Norodom Sihanouk 100: A Cambodian Dream, November 4, 2022

The Japanese Students of Law, History, and Education, September 8, 2022

The Queen Mother Library: A Popular Library for the Youth, August 20, 2022

The First Visitor to the Documentation Center of Cambodia in Phnom Penh Former Turkish Ambassador to Cambodia, August 8, 2022

The Queen Mother Library & Cambodian Youth, July 22, 2022

Principal Donors Group’s Visit to the Queen Mother Library, July 6, 2022

Turkish Ambassador Visit DC-Cam’s New Office Building, June 27, 2023

L’Ambassadeur de France visite la Bibliothèque Reine Mère, April 01, 2022

French Ambassador Visits the Queen Mother Library, April 01, 2022

A Joint Visit by British Ambassador Tina Redshaw and Indian Ambassador Devyani Khobragade for “Ambassador of the Day” to the Queen Mother Library, March 30, 2022

Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia Visits the Queen Mother Library, March 25, 2022

Khmer Writers’ Association Visits the Queen Mother Library, ​December 29, 2020

Breaking The Silence Visits The Queen Mother Library, December 24, 2020

Visit of Indonesian Embassy Delegates to the Queen Mother Library, November 26, 2020

Dr. Chhim Sotheara of TPO & Friends Visit The Queen Mother Library, November 19, 2020

Swedish Embassy Visits DC-Cam and The Queen Mother Library, November 04, 2020

USAID Visits The Queen Mother Library, October 29, 2020

Turkish Ambassador to Cambodia and Her Friends Visits The Queen Mother Library, October 27, 2020

U.S. Ambassador and His Wife Visit The Queen Mother Library, October 26, 2020

SUNDAY VISIT: The Queen Mother Library Visitors, October 25, 2020

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Delegates Visit the Queen Mother Library, October 23, 2020

Ambassador of Brunei Darussalam Visits the Queen Mother Library, October 20, 2020

French Ambassador Eva NGUYEN BINH and Her Delegates Visit DC-Cam & The Queen Mother Library, October 19, 2020

Ms. Rebecca Kang, Australian Ambassador’s Spouse and Her Delegation Visits the Queen Mother Library, October 16, 2020

Ministry of Foreign Affair Delegates Visits the Queen Mother Library, October 13, 2020

Ambassador Liurka Rodriguez Barrios, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba and Her Daughter Visits The Queen Mother Library, October 12, 2020

Turkish Ambassador and Her Delegations Visit The Queen Mother Library, October 07, 2020

Australian Ambassador Visits The Queen Mother Library, October 06, 2020

Military History Preservation Zone: A Visit To The Queen Mother Library, October 06, 2020

Women Delegates from Ministry of Foreign Affair Visits the Queen Mother Library, October 05, 2020

H.E. Mr. Ermenegildo Kupa Lopes, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste in Phnom Penh Visits The Queen Mother Library, October 01, 2020

British Embassy Phnom Penh Visits The Queen Mother Library, September 30, 2020

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Kingdom of Cambodia Visits the Queen Mother Library, September 29, 2020

Ambassador Spouses Visit The Queen Mother Library, September 24, 2020

The Visitors from Royal Palace Visit The Queen Mother Library, September 23, 2020

Royal Thai Embassy in Cambodia Visits Queen Mother Library, September 22, 2020

The Queen Mother Library Visitors on September 2020

Queen Mother Library Inauguration, September 21, 2020

Opening of the Queen Mother Library, September 21, 2020

Princess Norodom Ponita Visits The Queen Mother Library, 24 August 2020

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The Centers

DC-Cam H.Q.

The Queen Mother's Library, Phnom Penh

H.M. the Queen Mother Library by Zaha Hadid

DCCAM PROVINCIAL CENTER: Prey Veng Documentation Center

DCCAM PROVINCIAL CENTER: Cham Silk: Colors of Memory

DCCAM PROVINCIAL CENTER: Kampong Cham Documentation Center

DCCAM PROVINCIAL CENTER: THE COMMUNITY HEALING CENTER, Koh Thma Documentation Center & The Praying House of the S'tieng Ethnic Village

DCCAM PROVINCIAL CENTER: Hill Tribes Memory Community Center

DCCAM PROVINCIAL CENTER: Mekong Riverside Decks & Eco-Boats Community Center

DCCAM PROVINCIAL CENTER: Stung Treng Documentation Center

DCCAM PROVINCIAL CENTER: Anlong Veng Peace Center

DCCAM PROVINCIAL CENTER: Veal Veng Reconciliation Center

DCCAM PROVINCIAL CENTER: Takeo Documentation Center

DCCAM PROVINCIAL CENTER: Bak Nim Healing Center