We invite visitors to explore our interactive, thematized collections weaving together digitized visual and material artefacts, archival documents, and audio-visual community narratives and oral histories to engage with issues and questions of religious freedom in Sri Lanka from the colonial period to the present day. The museum was designed to capture the rich textures and sensory details of religious life, history, and coexistence in Sri Lanka. It also aims to encourage further learning, reflection and informed conversation on the tensions, violence, and enduring institutional constraints and faultlines that continue to hinder religious freedom and harmony in the island. The extensive primary and secondary research that informed the work of the museum has also been made available through the museum repository for the benefit of students and researchers. We are further committed to sustaining an online and offline public programme including exhibitions, guest lectures, workshops, and an e-learning platform centred on our wider communities to promote greater literacy in and respect for the freedom of religion and belief in Sri Lanka. With a view of sharing these values that were foundational to its establishment, we envision the Museum of Religious Freedom as a dynamic and participatory space and community of learning together.

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This museum is supported by UNAOC, CKU Denmark and UNDP. The museum was a recipient of the Intercultural Innovation Award by the UNAOC and the BMW Group in 2019.