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.

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 ...

The museum said it was looted by Dutch East India Company troops during the siege and plunder of Kandy in 1765. The museum’s director, Taco Dibbits, called the decision to return the cannon and ...

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