Lionel Wendt Memorial Art Centre in Colombo

  -   Location: Lionel Wendt Memorial Art Centre, 18, Guilford Crescent, Colombo 7
  -   Telephone Number: +94 11 269 5794
  -   Open: 9am-1pm and 2pm-4pm from Monday to Friday.

A multi-functional art center is what Lionel Wendt Memorial Art Centre in Colombo stands for. You will perceive a complete experience of art and cultural aesthetics as soon as you step into Lionel Wendt Memorial Art Centre. Colombo in Sri Lanka hosts art gallery otherwise, but you will get the simultaneous experiences of exhibition, art shows and stage events in this art center which has provisions for various facilities.

Lionel Wendt, who died in 1944, was the most popular and internationally acclaimed photographer of the country. He was known as a strong individual with sharp intellect and penchant for artistic forms like music, painting, photography and cinema. Born in Colombo on December 3, 1900, Lionel Wendt had a brush with law and music during his academic and later professional life but he finally gave pent to his pent-up artistic passions and creative talent through photography in 1935. Finally he passed away in Colombo on December 19, 1944.

Soon after, Lionel Wendt Memorial Art Centre was formed in 1953. Till, date it has promoted creative works by various local and international artists regularly by hosting their works for display to the common men and the connoisseurs of art.

Features of Lionel Wendt Memorial Art Centre in Colombo

  -   Lionel Wendt Memorial Art Centre in Colombo has collection of creative arts in the galleries
  -   In Lionel Wendt Memorial Art Centre in Colombo, you can also watch stage shows of cultural events
  -   Various antiques and other tit-bits are sold here along with the regular exhibitions on contemporary crafts and paintings by other Sri Lankan artists in the gallery of Lionel Wendt Memorial Art Centre.