National Museum of Kandy is one of the Museums Administered by the Department of National Museums, Sri Lanka. It was established in 1942.
Kandy National Museum N ational Museum of Kandy , Sri Lanka is one of the Museums Administered by the Department of National Museums . Presently, the museum has a large collection of artefacts (approximately 4000 items) mainly representing the subject areas of history and ethnology of the Kandyan Period . History The museum was established in 1942 in an old building called Palle Vahala (Embuldeniya & Karunarathna, 2019; Rambukwella, 2014). During the reign of King Sri Vickrama Rajasingha (1798 -1815 A.D.), this building was used as the harem or the quarters of his royal queens (Embuldeniya & Karunarathna, 2019; Rajapakse, 2016). You may want to read this post: Harem of Ehelepola The first collection of artefacts deposited in the Kandy museum belonged to Mr. John Andy Dickson, the Government Agent for Kandy who served the British government in 1832. He had a large number of antiques mainly collected from Kandy and Matale Districts in his residence and most of them were artifacts belonging to the subject of e…
