Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Art museum in Central and Western District, Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre occupies a three-story building at Kennedy Road with open colonnaded verandas, brick facades, and a glass extension. The interior provides dedicated spaces for working with ceramics, printmaking, and sculpture in a single location.

Cassels Block was built around 1900 as married officers' quarters for Victoria Barracks and was badly bombed during the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong. The British forces returned the barracks to the Hong Kong government in 1979, and in the mid-1980s the Urban Council chose the site for Hong Kong Park. Cassels Block became the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre in February 1989, replacing the centre's earlier home at City Hall, and was formally opened on 28 April 1992 by Urban Council chairman Leung Ding-bong.

The centre is run by the Art Promotion Office of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Its nine studios are rented by local artists for sculpture, ceramics and printmaking, and each month it holds courses, exhibitions, demonstrations and talks. The building is branded as vA! and opened on 28 April 1992.

The facility opens daily except Tuesdays and is easiest to reach from Admiralty MTR station or through Hong Kong Park entrance. Check ahead to see which studios or exhibitions are available on your visit day.

Cassels Block was hit by heavy bombing during the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong and was only repaired after the war. Its three storeys step down a steep slope in four tiers, a layout rare in Hong Kong. The arched colonnades on its east and west sides were later sealed with glass to add floor area.