National Museum of Colombo, otherwise called the Sri Lanka National Museum is one of two historical centers in Colombo. It is the biggest exhibition hall in Sri Lanka. It is kept up by the Department of National Museum of the focal government. The historical center holds contains an accumulations of much significance to Sri Lanka, for example, the formal attire of the nation, including the honored position and crown of the Kandyan rulers and additionally numerous different displays recounting the tale of old Sri Lanka.
The Museum's most well known display is the red-velvet loaded honored position of the King of Kandy, the last neighborhood ruler of Sri Lanka. At the point when this show was first opened to the general population in 1934, the caretakers needed to broaden the presentation by two more weeks to oblige the group, which numbered to very nearly 750,000 before the month's over. The elaborate honored position keeps on being a group magnet. The Museum additionally has great accumulations of old fashioned puppetry and evil presence veils.
The Museum's library has troves of neighborhood distributions obtained more than 129 years. Since the library progressed toward becoming Sri Lanka's first lawful safe, it has gathered more than 12 million records. Among its immense accumulations are palm leaf compositions written in a few dialects hundreds of years back on subjects, for example, old stories, soothsaying, engineering and demonology. Stunningly, the Museum has a staggering common history gathering, housed in a different expanding on similar premises. The ied displays incorporate ancient give in compositions, fossils of Homo erectus hominins, a long wiped out human precursor, gigantic bones of blue whales,