Art galleries in Phnom Penh

Galleries are best taken slowly. Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh has 7 mapped right now. That's 7 galleries mapped around Phnom Penh. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Opening nights are the cheat code — free entry, the artists in the room, and a crowd that actually wants to talk about the work.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Phnom Penh (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Ny Art and STP Cambodia, plus Chhan Dina Gallery. If a gallery's missing from Phnom Penh's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Phnom Penh gallery lineup

7 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Phnom Penh

1 of the 7 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.

3 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.

3 galleries list websites — that's where the current exhibition is announced, and it's the one thing worth checking before you visit.

The Phnom Penh gallery walk

Making a day of it in Phnom Penh? Work this order: Ny Art, STP Cambodia on 13A ផ្លូវ ៨៣០, Chhan Dina Gallery on 178 វិថី ព្រះអង្គអេង (១៣), Sa Sa Art Projects, The Gallerist, space four zero & wang dang doodle, and The Sleuk Rith Contemporary Art Gallery. That's the gallery walk in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Gallery tips for Phnom Penh

A few things worth knowing before you work through Phnom Penh's art galleries:

• First Fridays and art walks at Ny Art. Many towns run a monthly evening when galleries open late together. The easiest way to see everything at once.
• Small galleries take risks at STP Cambodia. Artist-run spaces show the work the big institutions won't. Some of it's baffling; some of it's the future.
• Many galleries are free. Smaller and artist-run spaces often charge nothing. When in doubt, check the website rather than assuming.
• Look at the building too. Galleries often live in the most interesting architecture in town — converted warehouses, old banks, heritage houses.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Phnom Penh — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Phnom Penh can take a while to appear. The 7 above are only as current as the community map. A art gallery that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 7 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.