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What hotels are near Nelum Pokuna Art Street?

Hotels near Nelum Pokuna Art Street: (0.53 km) Bunkyard Hostels (0.67 km) Cinnamon Red Colombo (0.70 km) Uga Residence (0.47 km) Colombo Villa at Cambridge Place (0.85 km) Taru Villas - Lake Lodge View all hotels near Nelum Pokuna Art Street on Tripadvisor

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Restaurants near Nelum Pokuna Art Street: (0.40 km) Upali's (0.30 km) laksala museum gallery cafe (0.24 km) Grand Slam by Mitsi (0.62 km) Chambers At Park Street Mews (0.76 km) Ramen Misoya Colombo View all restaurants near Nelum Pokuna Art Street on Tripadvisor

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SEs

London, UK25,876 contributions

Paintings

Nov 2019 • Friends

This is the street where local artists sell their paintings during weekends and holidays. A good place to buy local paintings .

Written 19 November 2019

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Toni H

Cedar Rapids, IA171 contributions

Beautiful local art

Oct 2019

We stopped here on our last day in Sri Lanka. It is a good thing I waited until the last day or I would have been broke for the whole trip. Sri Lanka has some talented artists. The 3 of us each bought a couple of pieces. I was very happy with the prices. Look for the owls painted on the tree.

Written 30 October 2019

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TingC

Colombo, Sri Lanka31 contributions

Best place to buy art

Sep 2019 • Family

We bought 4 pieces of art work there. Most of them are really nice and impressive. Reasonably priced. Highly recommend this place.

Written 16 October 2019

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Sasiri R

22 contributions

Best place to buy Arts in Sri Lanka

Oct 2018

You will have plenty of choices to select from day to day. Best place to buy hand drawn Arts in Sri Lanka.

Written 7 May 2019

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Rj0099

Jabalpur, India192 contributions

Beautiful art

Apr 2019 • Family

This is just outside the national art gallery, the local artist have displayed excellent work of art . The street is full of amazing paintings depicting various flavours of srilanka. A must visit.

Written 22 April 2019

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Clive R

Royal Tunbridge Wells, UK1,827 contributions

Local Art 🖼

Mar 2019 • Couples

Came to visit the park after lunch at the ‘Cricket Cafe’ so literally bumped into the artworks in this street. We had bought a very large painting at a market in Galle and bumped into Malinga the artist we had bought from. He is part of a group of artists who have a web page called ‘Aartzy’ (See photos if you are interested) showing their paintings and other pieces of art.

We spent about an hour chatting to Malinga and other artists and found it fascinating to here how they started and their styles and influences.

The prices are so good for paintings that must take hours to produce, we wish we could have bought more.

Written 28 March 2019

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SEs

London, UK25,876 contributions

Local Art

Dec 2018 • Friends

This is in front of the Nelum pokuna hall and Vihara maha devi park.There are a few stalls with quite a good selection of local paintings. They accept only cash you have to bargain.

Written 29 December 2018

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hdias

Reigate, UK415 contributions

Local art

Sep 2018 • Solo

Local art has been sold on this street for a number of decades. The best example of Sri Lankan art are rarely found here, but worth a look if passing.

Written 11 October 2018

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David B

Alexandria, United States150 contributions

More than Art in the Park

Jul 2018 • Family

I read about the Nelum Pokuna Art Street in Colombo and it intrigued me. I travel extensively and I like buying art in countries that I visit. I went to the Art Street located in central Colombo adjacent to its many beautiful parks. It was worth the effort.

Many genres of art were displayed - modern to traditional Kandy style paintings. A fun experience and I even bought a whimsical piece of art at a bargain price. Ironically, it will cost me more to frame it in the USA than what I paid for it.

My recommendation is go and buy. Cash only.

Written 31 July 2018

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MikeJuliya

Colombo, Sri Lanka683 contributions

Amazing

Jul 2018

It's really amazing if you have time to visit there. recommended this location for evening. around 2 hours.

Written 25 July 2018

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