Martin Wickramasinghe Folk Museum Complex

The Martin Wickramasinghe Museum of Folk Culture, is a large, spacious high-roofed building situated close to the entrance of the complex. The museum currently holds over a thousand artifacts of Sri Lankan rural life, providing a vast and unique storehouse of knowledge of local folk culture and folk technology going back several centuries. The museum, attracts many local and foreign visitors. The elegantly displayed artifacts are a unique store-house of knowledge of our local folk culture and folk technology going back hundreds of years.
The Museum includes many sections representative of folk technology and way of life, amongst which Buddhist religious artifacts, folk religious practices, the evolution of the Sinhala alphabet, writing utensils, village agricultural, fishing, pottery, and metallurgical technologies, folk dance and puppetry, including a unique collection of masks, musical instruments and drums, folk games, artifacts associated with traditional social interaction traditional lace making, costumes, jewellery, and many other exhibits of interest.