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Student preview ​‘Angkor’

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  • Drents Museum

Want to visit the exhibition Angkor before it opens to the general public? You can! 

On Thursday 15 and Friday 16 October, our Archaeology Curator, Irini Biezeveld, will give a lecture, after which you’ll be among the very first to visit the exhibition Angkor -The Mystery of Cambodia. Book your free ticket now via the ticket link and bring your student card with you.

This activity is specifically for students and the programme is in English.

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Lecture: is Angkor a mystery?

The perception of Angkor changed in the last 20 years from a temple-city to a sprawling pre-industrial metropolis, due to the development of scientific methods. Underneath the vast Cambodian rainforest, an urban landscape lay hidden for centuries. 

This lecture explores Angkor through three ways of knowing: the inscriptions that reveal dynastic chronologies, the lidar data that exposed urban planning and water management systems, and the iconography of the bas-reliefs at the temples that showed various aspects of daily life. Finally, we address how these insights were translated to the exhibition Angkor - The Mystery of Cambodia. Read more about the exhibition here. 

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Irini Biezeveld

Irini Biezeveld is the Archaeology Curator at the Drents Museum. She previously curated the exhibition Dacia - Empire of Gold and Silver and is now the curator of the exhibition on Angkor. Biezeveld studied archaeology at Leiden University and devoted her doctoral research at Goethe-University Frankfurt to the archaeology of mudbrick ruins in Oman, in which she led, amongst other things, surveys and excavations relating to the Islamic period.

Practical information

Date 15 and 16 October 2026.
Time The doors open at 10.30 AM, the lecture starts at 11.00 AM. After that you can visit 'Angkor'.
Meant for Students.
Price Free entrance with a (free)ticket and your student ID.
Language The lecture will be in English, the exhibition texts are in English and Dutch.