Sri Lanka Tea Museum is located 3km south of Kandy on Hanthana Road. It was built in the renovation of the Hanthana Tea Factory which was built in 1925. The museum has exhibits from tea pioneers including James Taylor and Thomas Lipton, as well as much vintage tea processing equipment. The ground floor has 19th-century colonial generators, rollers, dryers, fermentation tables, sorting machines. There are a library and a museum on the second floor. There is a shop on the third floor and a restaurant and tea room on the top floor.
Ceylon Tea Museum was incorporated on 9th January in 1998 under Section 21 of the Companies Act, 1982. Chairman of the Ceylon Tea Board By Clifford Ratwatte. The museum was formally opened on 1st December 2001.
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Hanthana was one of the first successful tea-growing areas after the island’s coffee production failed. In 1959, the Ceylon Tea Research Institute established a substation on leased land from the Hanthana Estate, similar to the Passara Sub Station established in the 1920s. The Hanthana Railway Station was established to meet the needs of Central Tea Estates concerning the physiology of tea science, entomology, and identification of drought-tolerant clones and insecticide pesticides. The museum is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 8:30 am to 3:45 pm and Sundays at 3 pm. An adult will be charged Rs.800 and children will be charged Rs.400.
