Hong Kong Science Museum, Science museum in Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Science Museum is a science museum in Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong, opposite the Hong Kong Museum of History. Its four floors hold about 500 exhibits in 18 galleries, roughly 80% of them participatory, and the 22-metre twin-tower Energy Machine stands in the centre of the exhibition hall.
The Urban Council first proposed the museum in 1976 and hired American firm E. Verner Johnson and Associates in 1984 to plan it. Hong Kong architects Palmer and Turner designed the building, which Leighton Contractors (Asia) Limited built between March 1988 and November 1990 at a cost of HK$340 million. Governor David Wilson and Urban Council chairman H.M.G. Forsgate opened it on 18 April 1991; management passed to the Leisure and Cultural Services Department in 2000.
The Cantonese name 香港科學館 means "Hong Kong science hall". The museum runs daily live demonstrations, many aimed at younger visitors, and about 80% of its roughly 500 permanent exhibits are participatory, so learning happens by handling and testing rather than by reading labels.
The museum stands opposite the Hong Kong Museum of History in Tsim Sha Tsui East. It is within walking distance of Exit D1 of Hung Hom station, Exit B2 of Tsim Sha Tsui station and Exit P2 of East Tsim Sha Tsui station on the MTR. About 80% of the exhibits are participatory, and staff give live demonstrations daily, many aimed at younger visitors.
Cathay Pacific's first DC-3 airliner hangs from the ceiling of the Hong Kong Science Museum, kept in its original paint. Look up at the fuselage to see construction details of the aircraft, and walk around to view the wings from different angles.
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