The National Museum of Ratnapura is one of the museums in Sri Lanka. It was established in an old Kandyan-era mansion known as Ehelepola Walawwa.
Ratnapura National Museum N ational Museum of Ratnapura (Sinhala: රත්නපුර ජාතික කෞතුකාගාරය, පැරණි ඇහැලේපොළ වලව්ව), Sri Lanka is one of the Museums Administered by the Department of National Museums . It was established in an old mansion building known as Ehelepola Walawwa . Archaeological discoveries of the pre-historic period, specimens of natural heritage, artefacts, and models of geological, anthropological, and zoological related to Sabaragamuwa Province are mainly exhibited in this museum (Abeyawardana, 2002; Embuldeniya & Karunarathna, 2019). History
The building which houses the present museum was built during the period 1811-1814, by Ehelepola Wijesundara Wikramasinghe Chandrasekara Senevirathna Amarakoon Wasala Panditha Mudiyanse (Ehelepola Maha Nilame), the then Maha Adikaram and District Agent (Disawe) of King Sri Vikrama Rajasinghe (1798-1815 A.D.).
Ehelepola Maha Nilame (1773 - 1829) is considered a powerful leader who emerged during the final phase of the Kandyan Kingdom . He was born to a Sinhale…
