Colombo Dutch museum

The Colombo Dutch Museum is a museum that covers the history of the Dutch colonial rule in Sri Lanka. Colombo Dutch Museum. Established, 1982.

The Portuguese took possession of Sri Lanka in 1517. They built a large fort, which encompassed present-day Fort and Pettah, Colombo.

The Dutch under Gerard Pieterszoon Hulft laid siege to and captured the fort in 1655. The Hollanders were in the employ of the Netherlands East India Company, the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC.

Situated onn Prince St in the modern Pettah, Colombo lies the 'Old Dutch House'. 

It was built in the late 17th century and was originally the home of the Dutch governor, Thomas van Rhee (1692-1697). 

In 1796 the British, took it over and made it into a Military Hospital . 

The building was later converted into a post office. 

Finaally it was restored in 1977-81 and opened to the public in 1982 as the 'Dutch Period Museum'.

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