Museum at SLBC to mark anniversary

COLOMBO: A museum will be opened at the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) to mark its 40th anniversary which falls today.

The Radio Ceylon begun in 1926 was re-established as a Corporation in 1967.

Information and Mass Media Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, Ministry Secretary W. P. Ganegala and others who have contributed to the Corporation will be present at the opening ceremony at 9.30 a.m.

The museum will house old instruments and pictures of personalities of yesteryear who had rendered their services to the Corporation. The museum will have a laboratory of languages and an unit to inform the public during an emergency or disaster, SLBC sources said.