The Country’s First Sri Lankan Museum Is In The Basement Of A Sri Lankan Restaurant On Staten Island

And it was started, and is run, by and 18-year-old. Julia Wijesinghe says, “My friends ask me, ‘You’re from New York, why do you have so much pride for your parents’ country?’ I have one-hundred-per-cent New York pride, too. I got inspiration for my museum from going to MoMA.”