This recently opened museum occupies the 1925 vintage Hanthana Tea Factory. Abandoned for over a decade, it was refurbished as a museum by the Sri Lanka Tea Board and the Planters’ Association of Sri Lanka. In addition to an extensive collection of 19th century rollers, dryers and other tea-factory equipment in their original settings, the museum also contains exhibits of the lives and works of tea pioneers James Taylor and Thomas Lipton. There are also exhibits of other tea-related colonial era objects including Sri Lanka’s oldest packet of tea.