New museum for H'tota

New museum for H'tota  [June 25 2012]    

The National Museum Department is drawing up a plan to establish a new museum in Hambantota next year, Museum Superintendent Ranjith Hewage told the Daily News.  This museum will be named Hambantota Uruma, he said. Conservation programmes of the two old buildings in the Kachcheri premises will commence next month, he said. The Treasury has allocated Rs 18 million for this task, he added.  Traditional and endemic items related to the Hambantota area will be exhibited in the proposed museum. Historical items related to art, religion and politics will be displayed, Hewage said.

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