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Puppetry Museum (Dehiwala). – By Prashanth Sentilkumar Source : Prashanth Sentilkumar Linkedin Had the opportunity of visiting a small Puppetry Museum in Dehiwala, called the Traditonal Puppet Art Museum sometime ago. I had to wait for three weeks to visit the museum because due to less visitations, they were not doing the Puppet show (Rookada). Luckily there was an International School that had booked the place for its small once to see, so myself and 70 students and two teachers had the privilege to watch a beautiful show. The Museum is run by an elderly couple, very nice people who are finding it hard to maintain the museum due to the present situation, all the puppets are made in Ambalangoda and if anyone wants to see the puppetry show there needs to be a minimum of 20 people, if not they will only show a clip of a recording,the museum is ...