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Galle
Cultural Museum
Within the Fort of Galle in a Dutch Colonial building
in Church Street is the Cultural Museum adjoining the
New Oriental Hotel. The artifacts reflect the art and
culture of the Southern Province.
The National Maritime Museum, Galle
Located within the Fort of Galle in a colonial Dutch
ware-house with imposing pillars, this museum displays
the fauna & flora of the sea. Artifacts consist
of preserved material and scaled down models of whales
and fishes. Generally, all the resources of the sea
are displayed in this Museum.
It also shows in diorama form with life sized models,
the traditional methods of fishing. Some artifacts of
underwater archaeology are also on display. An interesting
experiment is the 'walk-into-the sea' diorama, showing
the natural coral beds, sea grass beds and deep sea
fishes.
Finally, one leaves the museum seeing the causes of
sea pollution, coast erosion and methods used to combat
these problems. |
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