The collection of artifacts that increased unceasingly for six decades represents the diversity of the ancients Sri Lanka cultural heritage. Proto-historic artifacts, ancient architectural remains, paintings, sculptures and engravings, pottery, coins, terracotta images are the most outstanding of the collection. The replicas of the renowned artifacts of Sri Lanka are exhibited as well
The collection of prehistoric galleries represents stone tools, fossilized animal remains, and snails.
The collection of coins consists of the periods of ancient Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Kandy, and the colonial era to the present.
The collection consists of architectural material remains, such as bricks, tiles, ancient nails, and wooden pakeda.
The gorgeous sculptures of the Buddha image, Bodhisathwa image, Hindu image represent as type of original and replica
The stone artifact belongs to Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, which can be seen with different forces of lion, man, and dragon.
The pottery remains consisting of local and foreign can be seen in the collection, in which the potsherds in the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa eras.
හිඳි තාරා බෝධිසත්ව (ශීර්ෂය රහිත)
Seated Tara Bodhisattva (headless) figure
හිටි බුදු පිළිමයක් (නුවර යුගය)
Standing Buddha image belonging to the Kandyan period
හිඳි බුදු පිළිමයක් (නුවර යුගය)
Seated Buddha image belonging to the Kandyan period
අක්ෂර සහිත මැටි පලකයක්
Clay tablet with post-Brahmi characters belonging to the 6th-8th century AD
පද්ම කැටයමක කොටසක්
Part of a lotus carving
පියන සහිත ශිලාමය කරඬුවක්
Stone casket with a lid
දැවයෙන් කරන ලද පේකඩක්
Wooden bracket (‘Pekada’)
මකරා සහ මිනිසා දැක්වෙන කැටයමක් (අනුරාධපුර යුගය)
Carving depicting a dragon (‘makara’) and a human belonging to the Anuradhapura period