 His vision, shared and supported by Sarraut and by his peers, was for the museum to build traditional collections from the full range of Cambodia’s ancient works of art, including sculptures, bronzes, inscriptions, ceramics, jewelry, fragments of monuments, wooden objects, paintings and manuscripts.Simultaneously he enlisted Cambodians in preserving their own heritage by providing an organization to catalog the nation’s historical resources "to give all Khmers a stake in that past.