Handover Gifts Museum of Macao, Cultural center museum in Sé, Macau.
The Handover Gifts Museum of Macao is a museum in the Sé neighborhood that displays commemorative gifts presented to mark Macao's return to China in 1999. The building has several floors of gallery space, with objects arranged in modern display cases and dedicated exhibition areas.
The building opened in December 2004 on the site where a temporary pavilion had stood during the 1999 handover ceremonies. Once those events ended, the pavilion was replaced by a permanent structure meant to keep a record of the transition.
The collection is made up of gifts presented by China's 56 officially recognized ethnic groups to mark Macao's establishment as a special administrative region. Each piece can be traced back to a specific community, reflecting the craft and artistic traditions of that group.
The museum is in the Sé neighborhood, not far from the Macao Museum of Art, and is easy to reach on foot from the surrounding area. Admission is free, so no advance booking is needed.
The top floor of the building houses a reading room where documents and archives related to the handover are kept and can be consulted by visitors. This part of the museum receives far less foot traffic than the galleries below, even though it holds one of the few publicly accessible records of the transition in the city.
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