Colombo National Museum became very popular amongst locals as well as foreigners alike by 1940. Its branches were opened in Jaffna, Kandy and Ratnapura by the first Sri Lankan Museum Director Dr.

The Kandy National Museum, housed in former Pallewahala or the Palace of the Concubines of the last monarch of the country- Sri Wickrama Rajasingha was re-opened to the public a few weeks ago after a ...

Thousands of pilgrims camped overnight outside Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist temple in anticipation of Friday's display of a prized relic that will be shown to the public for the first time in 16 ...

Established as the Colombo Museum in 1877, the Colombo National Museum is the main museum in the country that exhibits a plethora of artefacts representing Sri ...

Six other colonial artifacts claimed by Sri Lanka are currently in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands’ national museum of arts and history; this is the first repatriation of such ...

Colombo, September 2 (US Embassy): The United States government, through the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), has awarded a g ...