Museums in Sri Lanka

By theme

How Sri Lanka’s museums split across the six broad themes. Museums catalogued simply as “a museum”, with no narrower type recorded, fall under General.

A sample of museums

All 35 of Sri Lanka’s mapped museums, alphabetically.

Ambalangoda Mask Museum · Anuradhapura Museum · Archaeological Museum, Vavuniya · Batticaloa Museum · Bogambara Prison · Buduruwagala Museum · Ceylon Tea Museum · Colombo National Art Gallery · Colombo Port Maritime Museum · Currency museum · Folk Museum · Hatthikuchchi Museum · Highway Museum complex · Independence Memorial Museum · International Buddhist Museum · Jaffna Archaeological Museum · Kasagala Museum · Kotte Museum · Maritime and Naval History Museum · Mihintale Museum · Mulkirigala Museum · National Maritime Museum · National Museum of Colombo · National Museum of Galle · National Museum of Kandy · National Museum of Natural History · National Museum of Ratnapura · National railway museum · Panduwasnuwara Museum · Postal museum, Colombo · Sri Lanka Air Force Museum · Sri Lanka Cricket Museum · Sri Lanka Planetarium · Temple of the Tooth Museum · Walisinghe Harischandra Museum