Some of the things you see here are extremely difficult to look at. You almost feel obligated by the victims to soldier on. Still I reached a point about 75% through the place where I had seen enough, and decided to leave. The scenes there definitely make you appreciate your life and what you have. I would recommend to anyone coming here, but like I said be prepared for heartbreak.

I have a friend who had fallen in love with Cambodia and wanted to show me. We arrived in PP and before I even had a chance to grab my camera, he stuck me on the back of a motorbike and off we roared, I knew not where. Turned out to be the Genocide Museum. You can't forget about it once you've been there. The faces of the people in the photos are amazing. There is a lot of courage, stubbornness, in their faces; and that, I guess, is one of the most memorable features of the whole experience. Each and every personality lives on. I would, I will, go back just to look again, and for longer, at each of these photos. Also went to the Killing Fields, which, oddly enough, is very PEACEFUL. A very spiritual place, I guess you could say. There were butterflies, and some little children playing, off in the corner.

The Toul Sleng Genocide Museum takes your breath away. The atrocities that the Cambodian people sufferd under Pol Pot are there for all to see. It happened such a short time ago that most of the beautiful smiling Cambodians that you meet have at least one relative that died under this regime. I don't think a trip to Cambodia can be complete without visiting this museum. Get a guide but prepare to be shocked. The terrified faces fill you with sadness and horror. This trip inspires one to learn all you can about Cambodian history. It is a must!

I visited Toul Sleng in Feb 2006. I have to say, of all places I visited in Cambodia (land mine musuem and killing fields included) this was the most harrowing. I was so overwhelmed with sadness by the end of my walk through that I felt physically ill. Call me crazy - but I think you can actually feel what went at S-21 when you're walking through the tiny, blood splattered rooms. If you're want to experience Cambodia, you have to visit Toul Sleng.

No trip to Cambodia could possibly be complete without a trip to Tuol Sleng. One will never understand the poverty and corruption without understanding this horrible chapter in human history. Take all the time you need, and then get a bite at the Boddhi Tree restaurant across the street.

what i likes about this place was, you got to see what they all went though you see soo many things that it just gives you these goosebumps everytime you go into a different room, the cambodian tried to clean up most of the blood that was left there years ago. and now its a musem to show us what they went through in the past. it was a good thing to learn about my past and wat my parents go through.its a really good place to visit. its also very sad. like cambodia is a gorgeous place to go to, the people are soo nice. i was there for a month, toul sleng was the reason why i wanted to go, i'm interseted in the history and wat pol pot had done, and yet he got away. i cant wait to go back

I went there during a business trip and found it to be informational and interesting, but I also found it to be quite depressing and painful to not only hear about, but see the place where such atrocities occurred. Some might think that its necessary to go there, but it actually made me feel a bit depressed and sad for the remainder of my trip. I did the full walkthrough the museum and have no intention of ever going there again. If you're a history buff or just interested in what happened during Pol Pot's regime, then by all means, go check it out, but if you're emotional, it may not be the best place for you.

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I cant add anything new to what has been said. All I can say is that at the end I just sat in the garden for 15 minutes, almost cried, and wondered how people could be so cruel to even their own neighbours. On par with visiting the Peace Museum at Hiroshima, or any of the concentration campsites in Europe. And to think that Guantanomo Bay and Abu Ghraib still happen. When will we ever learn? Yet the Cambodian people do not want to punish their erstwhile torturers. They just want to know what happened and bring closure to the loved ones they lost. What a forgiving philosophy - unlike we in the West who bay for a criminal's blood.

Nothing will prepare you for this experience. Most are aware of the widely published gallery of doomed people on the wals of S 21. It is only when you are standing in their cells, looking at the disoriented and terrified (many of them children or frail old fok) as they stare at you from the walls, that you are with them that early morning sometime between 76 and 78 when they were trucked in to Phnom Penh. Six of the 17,000 plus inmates would make it out alive. This museum, in a state of disrepair, desperate for funds to keep it from crumbling (the world almost lost the photographic records due to insects and humiditiy - they couldn't even afford insecticide and storage). Visit Cambodia, and pay respects to the memory of those who died at S 21. The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum must be kept open, and supported by all of humanity, as a place of rememberance and warning.