Hong Kong Museum of History, History museum in Tsim Sha Tsui East, Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong Museum of History occupies a building on Chatham Road South in Tsim Sha Tsui East, beside the Hong Kong Science Museum. Its entrance is a flat glass facade in a white metal frame with vertical and diagonal braces, sheltered by a curved mauve canopy bearing the museum's name in Chinese and English. Inside, the renovated permanent exhibition, The Hong Kong Story, fills ten galleries on the ground floor under four themes.
The institution began in 1975 when the city art museum was divided into two separate institutions. The building at its current site opened in the late nineties and sits next to the science museum.
The permanent exhibition guides visitors through reconstructed streets, old shops and traditional living spaces that show life in past centuries. Many exhibits come from everyday life and give a direct impression of how the city changed over generations.
A visit usually takes two to three hours depending on how much time you spend in each area. The exhibition rooms are accessible by lift and the tour can be divided into several sections.
Besides the main building, the institution runs several smaller museums across the city, including a coastal defence museum and a folk house. These branches focus on specific topics and complement the central collection.
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