Sri Lanka, April 7 -- Museums are repositories of knowledge and a window to the past. Sri Lanka has many museums, but there was none to showcase wildlife history until 2010. The Wild Life Museum at Girtitale was opened on December 16, 2010 by the Department of Wild Life Conservation.

People can see living animals at the Dehiwala Zoological Garden, Pinnawala Elephant orphanage, Rambukkana open zoological garden and Mirijjawila Dry Zone Botanical Garden.

But to see animal skeletons and replicas of indigenous as well as animals found in other countries, people have to visit the Wild Life Museum at Giritale. All replicas in the museum look like live animals. This is considered the only museum of this kind in Sri Lanka.

To reach the place, ...