Kotte Museum Explained

Kotte Museum
Coordinates:6.8932°N 79.9053°W
Established:1992
Location:Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka
Type:Archaeological

Kotte Museum (Sinhala; Sinhalese: '''කෝට්ටේ කෞතුකාගාරය''') is an archaeological Museum in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka. It is located at Bangala junction in Ethul Kotte, on the Borella-Pitakotte main road. The museum serves as the regional museum for Western Province of the country and is maintained by Archaeological department of Sri Lanka.

The museum was first established in 1992 as E. W. Perera Memorial Museum in Ihala Walawwa,[1] the residence of E. W. Perera, a prominent figure in the Sri Lankan independence movement, and was declared open to the public in 1995.

The museum building consists of five exhibition rooms and is used to display a variety of archaeological antiquities recovered from Kotte and its surrounding area. They include various regional flags, clothing, statues, coins, swords, knives, guns, weapons, pottery, maps, and a collection of items used by E. W. Perera and items donated by Douglas Ranasinghe.[2] [3]

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  1. Web site: Archaeological Museum of Kotte – කෝට්ටේ පුරාවිද්‍යා කෞතුකාගාරය. Amazinglanka. 14 March 2017.
  2. Web site: Kotte Museum (Regional). . 14 March 2017.
  3. Web site: Exploring the forgotten Kingdom of Kotte. Daily FT. 7 December 2013. 14 March 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170314154310/http://www.ft.lk/2013/12/07/exploring-the-forgotten-kingdom-of-kotte/. 14 March 2017. dead.