The museum opened in March 2017 after the items arrived in a twenty-foot container that took a ... In the Sri Lanka Museum on Staten ... Sri Lankan Museum founder, 18 year old Julia ...

The concept for the museum came from the owner’s 18-year old daughter, Julia Wijesinghe. She was born in New York to her Sri Lankan-born parents and three years ago, she had the idea to open a ...

The museum’s director, Taco Dibbits, called the decision to return the cannon and five other pieces “a positive step in cooperation with Sri Lanka.”. Some Western nations are returning ...

Sri Lanka's foreign minister says his country welcomes the Netherlands' plan to return a bejeweled ceremonial cannon and other colonial-era artifacts from the Netherlands and is working through ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s foreign minister said Monday that his country welcomes the Netherlands’ plan to return hundreds of colonial-era artifacts — including a bejeweled, … ...

Sri Lanka's foreign minister said Monday that his country welcomes the Netherlands' plan to return hundreds of colonial-era artifacts — including a bejeweled, ceremonial cannon — and said the ...

The Dutch will give back 478 objects of significance to Indonesia and to Sri Lanka that were wrongfully brought to the Netherlands during the colonial period.