Mihintale Archaeological Museum is a small on-site museum exhibiting antiquities excavated from the Mihintale Monastery precincts.
Mihintale Archaeological Museum M ihintale Archaeological Museum (Sinhala: මිහින්තලේ පුරාවිද්යා කෞතුකාගාරය), Sri Lanka is one of the Regional Museums Administered by the Department of Archaeology . It is located between the Ruins of Maninaga Mandiraya and Mihintale Ancient Hospital Complex . History The building that presently houses the museum was originally established in 1979 under the Gam Udawa Program on an idea of the then Member of Parliament, Dayaratne Walagambahuas as a government inn to accommodate devotees who visit Mihintale. However, the Buddhist monk, Mihintale Ratnajothi Thera requested the Department of Archaeology to establish a museum at this location. In response, the Department of Archaeology took over the building and prepared it as a museum and opened it on 24 June 1984 under the patronage of the then Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa. However, by the year 2000, the museum had fallen into a dilapidated state. In 2005, the museum was closed as it was no longer possible to maintain in…
