Hong Kong Heritage Museum
The museum building is the largest in Hong Kong, and can accommodate up to 6,000 visitors.
Features
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The Museum has been designed to provide comprehensive exhibitions on history, art and culture. The Museum has a number of interactive exhibitions and programmes. It also houses a cafe and museum shop.
There are six permanent exhibition galleries for the display of the museum's collections and six thematic galleries for temporary exhibitions. Permanent galleries include:
- New Territories Heritage Hall (closed in June 2016)
- Children's Discovery Gallery
- Cantonese Opera Heritage Hall
- T.T.Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art, displaying artifacts from the former Tsui Museum of Art
- Chao Shao-an Gallery
- Jin Yong Gallery Gallery (opened on 1 March 2017)
Other than galleries, the museum has a 350-seat theatre for various performing arts and talks, including regular Cantonese opera performance. The museum possesses over 30,000 items related to Cantonese opera, which is a designated intangible cultural heritage of Hong Kong and the region.
Gallery
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Children's Discovery Gallery
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Old Toy Exhibition
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Jin Yong Gallery
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T.T.Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art
Branch museums
The museum runs three branch museums:
- Hong Kong Railway Museum (Tai Po Market, Tai Po District)
- Sam Tung Uk Museum (in a former Hakka walled village, Tsuen Wan, Tsuen Wan District)
- Sheung Yiu Folk Museum (in a former Hakka village, Sheung Yiu, Sai Kung District)
Transport
The museum is served by numerous bus lines. It is also within walking distance of several MTR railway stations:
- East Rail line: 15-minute walk from either Tai Wai or Sha Tin station
- Tuen Ma line: 5-minute walk across the river from Che Kung Temple station
See also
- Museums in Hong Kong
- History of Hong Kong
- Culture of Hong Kong
- Heritage conservation in Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre
- Hong Kong Museum of History