BY RANDIMA ATTYGALLE In a collaborative international provenance research, which was concluded in April 2022, six artefacts ...

SINCE Sir William Gregory in 1872 developed the idea of collecting exhibits illustrating the natural history, antiquities and industrial products of Ceylon, the Colombo Museum has preserved a high ...

Why did everyone start calling it the ‘Katuge’? The recently released ‘Guide to the National Museum – Colombo’ provides the answer. The skeleton of a large whale of enormous size hung on the ceiling ...

Six Lankan artefacts will be returned to Sri Lanka by the Netherlands during a two-day event at the Colombo National Museum. Issuing a statement, the Netherlands Embassy in Colombo said during a ...

will open its landmark store in the Colombo Museum premise at the end of this month. Positioned as the ‘National Museum Gallery Café’, the state-of-the-art showroom, which is constructed at a ...

Schools in and about Colombo make increasing use of this collection, and 8,127 scholars visited tho Museum with their teachers during the year. Approximately 225,000 people entered the Museum in ...