Sri Lankan Art & Cultural Museum

Name: Sri Lankan Art & Cultural Museum
Phone Number: 718-576-5035Tap To Call
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Email: [email protected]
Web Site: Sri Lankan Art & Cultural Museum
Google listing: Google maps listing
Address: 61 Canal Street, Staten Island, New York
Town/Neighborhood: Stapleton Heights
Section of Island: Staten Island
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Description: Sri Lankan Art & Cultural Museum was opened on March 27th, 2017, at 668 Bay Street Staten Island, NY 10304 by a young girl, 18 years old name Julia Wijesinghe. This Non-Profit Organization is run by the Cultural Heritage of Sri Lanka Inc. Julia was born and raised in New York from a Sri Lankan background family, where she builds up her pride in Sri Lanka and to this day. When she begins to learn her ancestral heritage, she started to see how vibrant it is to be responsible for showing it to the World.
Main category 1: Museum
Main category 2: Community Museum
Main category 3: Artistic Community
Main category 4: Non-Profit
Keywords: Sri Lankan Art & Cultural Museum,  Museum, community Museum, artistic community, self-expression

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Public Transportation (Include Buses, Train Stop): S51
Closest Major Intersection: Bay St and Water St
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Type of Non-Profit: 501c3 non-profit
Organization’s Mission Statement:
Julia wanted to be an explorer and learn different things within the Cultural views. She opened up this museum and made it a learning experience of who she is and wants to share it with the world step by step. Her father, Lakruwana Wijesinghe opening the first Sri Lankan Restaurant in the USA in New York. She always had been influenced by her father with his creativity right at home and at his restaurant. With her parents’ help, she was glad and honored to finally open a museum of her own and be the first at it abroad from Sri Lanka. In the year 2018, Julia moved her museum to her place in 61 Canal Street Staten Island, NY 10304, a block away from her father’s restaurant where her museum used to be.