Colombo National Museum became very popular amongst locals as well as foreigners alike by 1940. Its branches were opened in Jaffna, Kandy and Ratnapura by the first Sri Lankan Museum Director Dr.

Ananda Abayaratna recounts how a national treasure, the crown of King Rajasinghe II, was lost forever. Pic by Shane Seneviratne Fifty years ago, in the morning of September 19, 1961, the assistant ...