Hoods Tower Museum, Trincomalee

Hoods Tower is a naval museum of the Sri Lanka Navy, located in Trincomalee.

Administrators of the Hood Tower Navy Museum, which is set up in a similar fashion to the Orr’s Hill Army Museum, conceded that they were aware that school children should not be visiting the museum, as it does not deliver a message that ‘brings people together’.

The museum displays spoils from sea tigers and a land vehicle used by Charles Anthony, Velupillai Prabhakaran’s eldest son. Despite the open admission of its administrators, school children continue to visit the museum, and the only effective mechanism for control that has been enforced is limiting the entry of school children to no more than 600 students a day.