31 Mar, 2020
With JKF’s primary sponsorship, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art was launched in December 2019 with the aim of establishing a museum for visual culture including the conservation, preservation and exhibition of Sri Lankan art and crafts. MMCA’s debut exhibition – ‘One Hundred Thousand Small Tales’ curated by Sharmini Pereira which was premiered at the internationally acclaimed Dhaka Art Summit comprised over 115 art works by 45 artists across different generations and attracted encouraging public interest recording 3,331 visitors including 895 school children and university students as at 31 March 2020.