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“It’s About Time” is a virtual museum that focuses on Sri Lanka’s recent history. The museum invites visitors to critically reflect on history, to acknowledge multiple narratives of history, and to bridge the gap between official narratives and personal experiences of history.
Find out moreThe exhibits below help us understand the people and their motivations behind our most popular and least interrogated historical narratives.
The exhibits below invite us to think about ordinary people's histories that help us contextualise and complicate mainstream narratives.
The exhibits below encourage us to explore concepts – such as food and music – that have influenced our shared culture and identity.
The exhibits below inspire us to reflect on our individual contributions to history and help us connect history to the present and to ourselves.
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What does home mean to you? This is what artist Thamotharampillai Sanathanan attempts to capture in ‘The Incomplete Thombu’. The project is a collection of memories of Tamil and Muslim civilians displaced from the country’s northern province,giving new meaning to the phrase ‘Home is where the heart lies’
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Did you know that street names can reflect our country’s socio-political changes through history? For example, roads named after famous individuals of one time are sometimes revisited and revised when the next regime comes into power.
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A little known fact is that Sinhala and Tamil share common roots, originating in India and developing into two standalone scripts today. This exhibit studies the two languages: its origins and evolution over the years. Can you spot similarities between the scripts?
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