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Galle Fort National Maritime Museum: VOC porcelain cargo and ship bell exhibits?

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Amila Warehouse•935 rep

What Chinese export porcelain, VOC bronze ship bells, and spice trade artifacts are exhibited inside the 1671 Dutch warehouse in Galle Fort?

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The National Maritime Archaeology Museum inside Galle Fort is housed within the historic 1671 Dutch East India Company (VOC) warehouse opposite the Old Gate. Following extensive post-tsunami restoration, the museum displays maritime artifacts salvaged from historic shipwrecks in Galle Harbor, including the VOC vessel Avondster. Exhibits feature massive bronze ship cannons, stone anchor stocks, intact blue-and-white Ming Dynasty Chinese export porcelain plates, spice trade weighing scales, and recovered ship bells that document Indian Ocean mercantile history.

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The building itself is a masterpiece of colonial architecture, featuring massive coral-stone walls and heavy timber king-post roof trusses.

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Amila Warehouse•935 rep

Admission tickets (approx. 5 USD) are purchased at the ground-floor reception desk; air-conditioned galleries offer a cool break from fort heat.

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Underwater marine archaeology units maintain active conservation laboratories on site to treat waterlogged wood and metal artifacts recovered from local wrecks.

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