Hoods Tower Museum

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Hoods Tower Museum

Nameboard of the Hoods Tower Museum
Location	Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Type	Military

The Hoods Tower Museum (Tamil: குட் கோபுர நூதனசாலை, romanized: Kuṭ Kōpura Nūtaṉacālai; Sinhala: ත්‍රිකුණාමලය නාවික කෞතුකාගාරය Trikuṇāmalaya Nāvika Kautukāgāraya) is a naval museum of the Sri Lanka Navy in Trincomalee. It is located at Ostenburg, in the Trincomalee peninsula on a high ridge overlooking the entrance to the inner harbor of Trincomalee within the SLN Dockyard. The museum gains its name from the Hoods Tower, an observation tower named after Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, Commander of the East Indies Station.^{[citation needed]}