The national Museum of Kandy is located near the Temple of the Tooth relic, in the part of the former Royal Palace of Kandy. The main part of the exhibits is in the building Palle váchal, which housed the concubines of the king, and now there is a huge number of relics, including thrones, scepters, and ceremonial swords, starting with the 17th and 18th centuries. The other part of the exhibits located in the main building of the Palace.

Palle váchal was used as a repository for historical artifacts made by the Association of art Kandy, established in 1832, and artisans mátala. The Museum was opened to the public in 1942.

This Museum once housed the Royal harem, now has Royal regalia and reminders about dobropilskiy Sinhala life. Exhibits include weapons, jewelry, tools and other items from the era when Kandy was the capital and after the British colonial era. The Museum is a statue of sir Henry ward, the former Governor of Ceylon, which was originally found opposite the property of the Queen.

Auditorium with high columns supporting the roof, was the venue of the Congress of leaders of Kandy, where in 1815 it was decided to cede power to the UK. There are signed in 1815, an agreement on the transfer of the management Board of the province of Kandy in the UK. In this document one of the main causes of transmission of the province appear: "the cruelty and oppression of the ruler of Malabar, in an arbitrary and unjust infliction of bodily suffering, pain and death without trial, and sometimes without charges or commit crimes, and in the General contempt and violation of all civil rights are egregious, enormous and intolerable". Sri Vikram Rajasinha announced: "due to violations of the traditions and sacred duty of the monarch, the power in the province Kandy was vested in the sovereign of the British Empire".

National Museum, along with the archaeological Museum, four churches and two monasteries together constitute one of the objects in the so-called cultural triangle of Sri Lanka (the vertices of the triangle formed by the three ancient capitals: Kandy, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa).