Maritime Archaeology Museum

Maritime Archaeology Museum is Located in a colonial Dutch ware-house in the Galle Dutch Fort.This museum displays the resources of the sea.The traditional methods of fishing,artifacts of underwater archaeology,natural coral beds,sea grass beds,deep sea fishes,preserved material and scaled down models of whales and fishes etc.are exhibited in this museum.The tourists who visit this museum will get the chance of learning the causes of sea pollution,coast erosion and methods used to solve these problems. Earliar,it was called National Maritime Museum.It was damaged by the tsunami in 2004 and it was reopened On March 04, 2010,as the country\'s first Maritime Archaeology Museum.
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