Hong Kong History Museum

　　The permanent home of the Hong Kong Museum of History, with a gross floor area of 17,500-square-meters, is housed in a new building constructed at a cost of HK$390 million 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 E. Verner Johnson. The new museum and the neighboring Science Museum together form a museum complex.

　　This is a great place, especially for those interested in discovering something about Hong Kong's past. The colorful and well presented exhibits here present the history of the area covering the past 6,000 years. There are some nice old colonial photographs and the exhibits are well labeled.

　　Apart from the main museum at Chatham Road South, the Hong Kong Museum of History runs four 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 and Dr. Sun Yat-sen Museum at Mid-levels in Central.