List of museums in Sri Lanka

Below is a list of museums in Sri Lanka. For this context, museums are defined as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

National Museums administered by the Department of Museums

National Museums

National Museum of Kandy established in 1942 is home to artifacts from the Kandian era

National Maritime Museum (Galle) was opened in 1992 and is located in a 1671 Dutch Warehouse

Tea making equipment, Ceylon Tea Museum, Kandy.

Museums of particular subjects

Museums administered by the Department of Archaeology

Terracotta Pipes, Jaffna Museum

North Central Province

Anuradhapura Museum (National)
Mihintale Museum (Site)
Veheragala Museum (Site)
Isurumuniya Museum (Site)
Tantirimale Museum (Site)

North Western Province

Panduwasnuwara Museum (Regional)
Puttalam Museum (Site)
Rajanganaya Museum (Site)
Yapahuwa Museum (Site)
Dambadeniya Museum (Site)

Central Province

Kandy Royal Palace Museum (Regional)
Nalanda Museum (Site)
Pidurangala Museum (Site)

Eastern Province

Batticaloa Museum (Site)^[3]
Dighavapi Museum (Regional)
Seruwila Museum (Site)
Welgam Vehera Museum (Site)

Western Province

Kotte Museum (Regional)

Southern Province

Matara Star Fort Museum (Regional)
Yatala Museum (Site)
Kasagala Museum (Site)
Mulkirigala Museum (Site)

Northern Province

Jaffna Museum (Regional)^[4]
Vavuniya Museum (Regional)

Uva Province

Buduruwagala Museum (Regional)
Maligawila Museum (Site)

Sabaragamuwa Province

Dedigama Museum (Regional)

Museums of particular subjects administered by the institutions of those subjects

Steamroller at Highway museum complex in Kiribathkumbura

Aircraft on Exhibit in the main hangar of Sri Lanka Air Force Museum.

Ceylon Tea Museum, Kandy
Colombo Port Maritime Museum, Colombo
Economic History Museum, Colombo
Highway Museum, Kiribathkumbura^[5]
Hoods Tower Museum, Trincomalee
International Buddhist Museum, Kandy
J. R. Jayewardene Centre, Colombo
Martin Wickramasinghe Folk Museum, Galle
Ambalangoda Mask Museum, Ambalangoda
Museum of Temple of Tooth, Kandy
National Telecommunication Museum, Padukka
Postal Museum, Colombo
Railway Museum, Kadugannawa^[6]
S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike and Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Museum, Colombo
Sri Lanka Air Force Museum, Ratmalana
Sri Lanka Cricket Museum, Colombo
Walisinghe Harischandra Museum, Negombo
Wax Museum, Polonnaruwa

References

^ "National Museum of Colombo". Retrieved 31 May 2015.
^ "Anuradhapura Folk Museum". Retrieved 31 May 2015.
^ "Heritage – Batticaloa Museum". Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
^ Pooranee. "Museums". Retrieved 2 January 2016.
^ "Sri Lanka's first Highways Museum now idles". Asian Tribune. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
^ "National Railway Museum declared open in Kadugannawa". Sri Lanka Railways. Retrieved 25 May 2015.

External links

Department of national museums

[1] "National Museum of Colombo". Retrieved 31 May 2015.

[2] "Anuradhapura Folk Museum". Retrieved 31 May 2015.

[3] "Heritage – Batticaloa Museum". Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.

[4] Pooranee. "Museums". Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[5] "Sri Lanka's first Highways Museum now idles". Asian Tribune. Retrieved 31 May 2015.

[6] "National Railway Museum declared open in Kadugannawa". Sri Lanka Railways. Retrieved 25 May 2015.

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