Trilingual introduction to Ape Gama Heritage Museum
- Title:
- Trilingual introduction to Ape Gama Heritage Museum
- Collection:
- Depicting the Sri Lankan Vernacular
- Set:
- Colombo
- Photographer:
- Herath, Bandara
- Date:
- 2014
- Location:
- Battaramulla, Colombo
- Country:
- Sri Lanka
- ID Number:
- MCD2_0412
- File Name:
- MCD2_0412.jpg
- Culture:
- Sinhala
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Subject:
- Plaques
Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (Sri Lanka)
Sri Lanka--Social life and customs - Image View Description:
- Wall plaque introducing the Ape Gama heritage museum in English. Plaque reads:
Our Village
From the hustle and bustle of the City of Colombo, the commercial hub of the island you are now in the national Capital Sri-Jayawardenapura, Kotte, once the seat of the kings and the centre of poets and artists. Here, within the sight of the National Parliament lies 'Ape Gama,' a replica of the villages of yesteryear in Sri Lanka, where society was managed as an agro-economy with flourishing traditional industries and the inhabitants lived a simple life with contentment.
His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksa, in his policy statement Mahinda Chinthanaya, aptly quoted Arahath Mahinda Mahathera's advice to king Devanampiyatissa, "The earth and its vegetation is yours, but they should be protected not only for your benefit, but also for the benefit of future generations. A ruler is only a temporary trustee and not an owner of your children's heritage.". (from the ancient chronicle of Mahavansa).
In the Mahinda Chinthanaya, His Excellency the President emphasizes about the idea prosperous village as "My life has been blessed by the winds of purity and fragance that sweeps across the fields of millet (Kurakkan) in our village. The village life has also created a deep sense of love, affection, environmental concourses and a spirit of innovation that had helped nurture the dream that I have for the village communities of Sri Lanka. I am very keen to realize such a dream through the implementation of the 'Gama Naguma', the village upliftment." - Description:
- Trilingual introduction to Ape Gama heritage museum, with description in English.
- Cite As:
- Bonnie and Robert MacDougall papers, #15-2-4397. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This item is protected by copyright, and the copyright holder is Bandara Herath. The item was digitized by Cornell University Library from a variety of negatives, positives, and slides retained by the Estate of Bonnie MacDougall. Cornell is providing access to the item with permission from the rightsholder for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Cornell welcomes additional information about the items in this collection, including any additional information regarding rights holders. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu with any such information or to request permission to use any images from this collection. For additional information about how you may use materials from Cornell University Library’s Digital Collections, review our Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio from Cornell University Library Collections (http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright).