About Us
Introduction
The Hong Kong Museum of History was established in July
1975 when the City Museum and Art Gallery was split into
the Hong Kong Museum of History and Hong Kong Museum of
Art. But some of the Museum's collections date back to
the City Museum and Art Gallery founded in 1962 at the
City Hall. In 1983, the Museum was moved to the
temporary accommodation in Kowloon Park. It was moved to
its present premises on Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha
Tsui in 1998.
The permanent home of the
Hong Kong Museum of History, with a gross floor area of
17,500 m2, is housed in a new building
constructed at a cost of HK$390M and funded by the Hong
Kong SAR Government. It is a comprehensive
state-of-the-art museum designed by the P&T
Architects and Engineers Ltd., based on the
architectural concept of Mr E. Verner Johnson. The new
Museum and the neighbouring Science Museum together form
a museum complex of a harmonious appearance and colour
scheme.
Apart from the main museum at
Chatham Road South, the Hong Kong Museum of History runs
five branch
museums, namely the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal
Defence at Shau Kei Wan, the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb
Museum at Sham Shui Po , Law Uk Folk Museum at Chai Wan,
Fireboat Alexander Grantham Exhibition Gallery inside
the Quarry Bay Park and Dr. Sun Yat-sen Museum in the
Mid-Levels of Central.
100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, |
|
