Traditional Puppet Art Museum
Traditional Puppet Art Museum
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Artful center offering exhibits of traditional Sri Lankan string puppets, plus performances.
Last updated: February 11, 2026
Overview
Artful center offering exhibits of traditional Sri Lankan string puppets, plus performances.
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Visitor Reviews
**★★★★★ Gayendra Laksri Wiki Wickramarathna — 6 years ago
At last a much awaited Sri Lankan Puppet Museum closeby to the Dehivala Zoo...Well laid out Puppetry
**★★★★★ Isuru Dissanayake — 6 years ago
This place exhibits the traditional Sri Lankan puppets. Puppet art has been spreaded into many countries around the world, but the Sri Lankan puppet art has a Sri Lankan hereditary. The main reason for this hereditary is the social, cultural and religious correlation that exists in the Sri Lankan community.
**★★★☆☆ Nipun Iranga — 4 years ago
Not crowded, small place, educational place, not maintaining very well
**★★☆☆☆ Shameema Murshid — 2 years ago
Interesting place but we were charged high.Though google says the ticket price is 100-200 we were charged 500 each even from the kids.we were not shown the puppet show also.Not worth the price
**★☆☆☆☆ Nithin M Agarwal — 6 years ago
My Google Review # 000100.
Closed down.
We visited in March 2019 and my daughter was very eager to see such a show. Surprisingly....rather disappointingly, when we reached there, we got nothing but one old building with the signage as shown in the picture on the website.
The locals told us that it was closed down weeks/ months ago.
Pl check with your guide before shortlisting this place, as I am not very sure about its reopening.
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