Hong Kong's Museum Tour

Feel what you want

Hong Kong have many different kind of museums.

Like art museum, history museum, etc.

I will going to introduce some special museums to you.

The Hong Kong Museum of History

This museum was built in July 1975.In the museum you can via different galleries to understand the history and culture of Hong Kong. There have over 70,000 items  and over 14,000 historical photographs collected here.

 

This is the old style bank note in 1945

  

  

Did you hear that " Cheung Chau Bun Festival" It's a very traditional festival in Cheung Chau. This festival was held on since 1978. Unfortunately, the bun scrambling cause the accident and over hundred of people got hurt. So government announced to stop this event. Until 2005 government decided to hold this event again. When the government decided to build up the bun mountain again , they were use the metal and steel to build up the structure of the bun mountain.

This event will start at the midnight of the festival day. People will climb to the bum mountain to get the bun, if they can get the bun in the higher of the mountain . It will represent that you can get more fortune, and the god will bless you. If you cannot get the bun you can buy some accessories like a bun.

The government will have a appropriate arrangement to help the people leave Cheung Chau when the end of the event. They will arrange the larger ship to help the people go back to the Hong Kong Island.

Information

 

Opening Hours: Monday & Wednesday to Saturday: 10am – 6pm Sunday and public holiday: 10am – 7pm Closed at 5 pm on Christmas Eve and Chinese New Year’s Eve Closed on Tuesdays (except public holidays) and on the first two days of the Chinese New Year

Tel. : 2724 9042

Fax. : 2724 9090
Email: hkmh@lcsd.gov.hk
Website:http://hk.history.museum

Address: 100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong (next to the Hong Kong Science Museum) 

 

Admission Fees

Standard Ticket : $10

Concession (for people with disabilities, full-time students and senior citizens aged 60 or above) : $5

Group (20 persons or above) : $7

Museum Pass and Museum Weekly Pass Holders : Free

Free admission on Wednesday (except for some Special Exhibition)

Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence

This museum located at Shau Kei Wan, it was built more than 100 years ago. Before to change to the museum, there is an important battlefield during the Battle for Hong Kong in 1941. There have three parts of the museum. First part is the reception area you can through the main entrance to the second part also is the core part of the museum. Redoubt is the core part of the museum. There are separated to two levels and you can find many different theme exhibition here. After that you can go to the Historical Trail. In this Trail you can find some interested thing, like old gun factory and 6 inch breech-loading gun.

  

This is a British 9 inch rifled muzzle-loading Mark I gun 

It's weighed 12,200kg length 4 meters. It found in Admiralty Garden in 1990.

 

This is opium pipe and opium lamp it's for opium smoking.

Information

Opening Hours:
Monday to Wednesday & Friday to Sunday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
**The opening hours are extended to 6pm during weekends and public holidays between 1 July and 31 August.

Closing Days
Thursdays (except public holidays)
The first two days of the Chinese New Year

Tel: 2569 1500, 2569 1248
Fax : 2569 1637
Email : hkmcd@lcsd.gov.hk
Website : http://hk.coastaldefence.museum
        http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Coastal

Address: 175 Tung Hei Road, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong

    

Admission Fees

Standard Ticket : $10

Concession (for people with disabilities, full-time students and senior citizens aged 60 or above) : $5

Group (20 persons or above) : $7

Museum Pass and Museum Weekly Pass Holders : Free

Free admission on Wednesday (except for some Special Exhibition)

There still have many different kind of museums in Hong Kong. I cannot introduce all of these museum here. So if you have interested another museum you can view this websitehttp://www.lcsd.gov.hk/b5/home.php  to understand more.

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