Magampura Ruhuna Heritage Museum

Magampura Ruhuna Heritage Museum

Magampura Ruhuna Heritage Museum (Photo credit: Google street view) The Magampura Ruhuna Heritage Museum in Hambantota, Magampura Museum (Sinhala: මාගම්පුර රුහුණ උරුම කෞතුකාගාරය) Sri Lanka is one of the Museums Administered by the Department of National Museums . History The museum has been established in an old Kachcheri building used as the District Secretariat of Hambantota during the British ruling period (1815-1948 A.D.). Leonard Woolf (1880-1969), the Government Agent for Hambantota from 1908 to 1911 used this as his secretariat.  The museum was declared open by President Maithripala Sirisena on 8 May 2015. Museum The museum houses a valuable collection of objects related to the ancient Magampura of the Ruhuna Kingdom. It also displays artefacts and models, pictures, paintings reflecting pre-historic, historic, art and archaeology in southern Lanka. A collection of information about the European activities and changes that happen in down south after the independence until the …