SLT opens museum

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) opened a national telecommunication museum at the company’s premises in Padukka recently, to coincide with the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. The museum showcases telecommunications equipment dating back from the British era up to to-date taking the visitors through a journey of the transformations that occurred in Sri Lanka’s telecommunications industry. The museum is now open for public viewing and promises to provide an unforgettable experience to visitors.

It was opened by SLT Chairman P. G. Kumarasinghe Sirisena. Director General and CEO of the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technology, Sanath Panawennage, Assistant Director of Colombo National Museum,Lankani Somaratne, as well as SLT officials were also present. The museum will preserve the heritage and legacy of the country’s telecommunications industry and to share this treasure and national asset with the rest of the country.

The museum will project all the eras in the history of telecommunication in Sri Lanka as per the timeline of development of the industry in the country to reflect milestones on a socio-economic-technological basis.