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.

Ananda Abayaratna recounts how a national treasure, the crown of King Rajasinghe II, was lost forever. Pic by Shane Seneviratne Fifty years ago, in the morning of September 19, 1961, the assistant ...

Thousands of pilgrims camped overnight outside Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist temple in anticipation of Friday's display of a ...

With a collection of more than 147 million items, this robust Smithsonian museum on the National Mall attracts millions of visitors each year. Some of the museum's highlights include replicas of ...