This museum is unlikely to impress if you’re arriving from the ancient cities, but the pinched-faced terracotta figures from Kilinochchi (4th to 5th century) are delightful and the central hexagonal chamber has some fine 5th-to-8th-century Buddha statues carved from Mannar limestone.
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