INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Dutch State Secretary for Culture and Media Gunay Uslu said Sri Lanka and the Netherlands have a shared past and it will help to build
together a common future with close cooperation in the fields of museums, collection management, research and exchange of knowledge and
Agreement to transfer valuable artefacts taken from Sri Lanka during the Dutch rule two and a half centuries ago
The objects include the famous cannon of freedom fighter Lewke Disawe, two gold kastanes (ceremonial sword), Sinhalese knives, silver
countries should undertake collaboration on research on Dutch architecture, canal system, forts and other monuments for prosperity.Referring
to the cannon of Lewke Disawe, the Prime Minister said that he was happy that Sri Lanka will get back this valuable treasure and told the
Dutch delegation that Lewke was a place close to his home town Sithawaka and the entire country pay homage to the National Hero Lewke
Ministry of Culture and the Department of National Museums to preserve the artefacts in a newly renovated chamber at the National Museum, it
added.She presented an ancient map of Ceylon by Baltus Jaquaez Van Lier drawn in 1751 to Prime Minister Gunawardena, according to the Prime
