- Several antique objects on display at the museums provide a deep insight into the culture and history of Sri Lanka.
- Various animal and plant specimens are found in the museums. The major exhibits of the museum are birds, mammals, reptiles, sea-mammals, insects botanical, gems and geological samples.
- Objects of traditional art and crafts are housed in the museums.
- Royal apparel, life size models of the last King and Queen of Kandy, variety of antiquities and ornaments, ritual objects are exhibited in the museums.
- The museums are home to a collection of objects offering an insight into the rural life of the North Central Province.
- Jewelry, textiles, and clothes, arms and weapons, ritual objects, ivory carvings, pottery of the kandyan period are on display at the Kandy museum.
- The Galle maritime museum displays objects pertaining to marine biology and botany with fine diagrams of local fishing methods, natural coral beds, sea grass beds and deep sea fishes.
- The folk museum at Koggala display folk items and implements classified under handicrafts, folk art and music, cottage industries, agriculture, folk medicine, costumes, religion etc.
- The mushrooming of art galleries unleashed new trends in the contemporary art movement of Sri Lanka.
- The modern elements have been enmeshed into the traditional features of art.
- Most of the art galleries exhibit the evolution and development of Sri Lanka\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s art from the 1920\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s until recent times.