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Chinese University Of Hong Kong Art Museum
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Museum is divided into two sections. The four-floor East Wing Galleries house a permanent collection of Chinese paintings, calligraphy, ceramics and other decorative arts, including 2000-year-old bronze seals and a large collection of jade flower carvings. The West Wing Galleries stage five to six special exhibitions each year.
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Dr Sun Yat Sen Museum
Sun Yat Sen was an early 20th Century revolutionary, dedicated to overthrowing the Qing dynasty, and a key figure in modern Chinese history. He had many links with Hong Kong, not least of them being his education here and his formative experience of the colony's order and efficiency (standing in stark contrast to China at the time).
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Hong Kong Arts Centre
Due east of the Academy for the Performing Arts is the Hong Kong Arts Centre. Along with theatres, you'll also find here the Pao Sui Loong & Pao Yue Kong Galleries (2824 5330; admission free; ; - during exhibitions). Extending over floors Nanshan four and five, there's room to host retrospectives and group shows in all visual media.
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Hong Kong City Hall
Southwest of Star Ferry pier, the recently facelifted City Hall was built in 1962 and is still a major cultural venue in Hong Kong, with concert and recital halls, a theatre and exhibition galleries. Within the so-called Lower Block, the Hong Kong Planning & Infrastructure Exhibition Gallery (3102 1242; www.info.gov.hk/infrastructuregallery) may not sound like a crowd-pleaser but it will awaken the Meccano builder in more than a few visitors.
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Hong Kong Design Centre
The design centre, just opposite the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, is housed in one of the most graceful colonial buildings in the territory. Built in 1896, it served as a bank, the offices of the Japanese Residents Association of Hong Kong before WWII and a school until it was renovated and given to the Hong Kong Federation of Designers. Even if it does not have any exhibitions open to the public, the exterior and public areas are worth a look.
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Hong Kong Film Archive
This is the place to find out what lies (or perhaps lurks) behind Hong Kong's film industry. The archive houses more than 4300 films, runs a rich calendar of screenings (local and foreign movies) and exhibits natty posters and other fine film paraphernalia.
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Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Located southwest of Sha Tin town centre, this exceptional museum is housed in a three-storey, purpose-built structure that is reminiscent of an ancestral hall. It has both rich permanent collections and innovative temporary exhibits in a dozen galleries.
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Hong Kong Maritime Museum
This small but interesting museum occupying the ground floor of Murray House consists of an ancient and a modern gallery charting the shipping history of Hong Kong and is well worth a visit if you've already come to see Murray House. The modern gallery includes some fun interactive displays where you can test your skills at morse code or even pilot a tanker through Hong Kong waters.
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Hong Kong Museum of Art
To the southeast of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, The Museum of Art does a good job with classical Chinese art, showcase paintings and lithographs of old Hong Kong, and a Xubaizhi collection of painting and calligraphy. Another hall shows creditable international exhibitions, but the gallery falls down in contemporary art - visit the smaller galleries around for recent Chinese art.
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Hong Kong Museum Of Coastal Defence
This museum doesn't exactly sound like a crowd pleaser but the displays it contains are as much about peace as war. Part of the fun is just to enjoy the museum's location. It has been built into the Lei Yue Mun Fort (1887), which took quite a beating during WWII, and has sweeping views down to the Lei Yue Mun Channel and southeastern Kowloon.
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Hong Kong Museum of History
For a whistlestop overview of the territory's archaeology, natural history, ethnography and local history, this museum is well worth a visit, not only to learn more about the subject but to understand how Hong Kong presents its history to itself and the world.
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Hong Kong Museum Of Medical Sciences
This small museum of medical implements and accoutrements is less interesting for its exhibits than for its architecture and attached herbal garden. It is housed in what was once the Old Pathological Institute, an Edwardian-style brick-and-tile structure built in 1905. The exhibits comparing Chinese and Western approaches to medicine are unusual and instructive.
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Hong Kong Railway Museum
The museum is housed in the former Tai Po Market train station, built in 1913 in traditional Chinese style. Exhibits, including a narrow-gauge steam locomotive dating back to 1911, detail the history of the development of rail transport in the territory. There is also much attention paid to the opening of the Kowloon-Canton Railway in 1910 and its original terminus in Tsim Sha Tsui, which moved to Hung Hong in 1975.
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Hong Kong Science Museum
Illustrating the fundamental workings of technology such as computers and telecommunications, and practical demonstrations of the laws of energy, physics and chemistry, the Hong Kong Science Museum is a great hands-on experience capable of entertaining adults as well as children. There are more than 500 displays, although some of them are showing their age.
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Hong Kong Space Museum & Theatre
Just east of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, this golf-ball-shaped building consists of the Hall of Space Science, the Hall of Astronomy and the large Space Theatre, one of the largest planetariums in the world. Exhibits include a lump of moon rock, rocket-ship models and NASA's 1962 Mercury space capsule.
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Lantau Link Visitors Centre
The Lantau Link Visitors Centre and its viewing platform is where you can take in the enormity of Tsing Yi Bridge and the Lantau Link, the combined road and rail transport connection between the New Territories and Lantau. The centre contains models, photographs and videos of the construction process - very much a crowd-pleaser for train spotters and the hard-hat brigade.
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Law Uk Folk Museum
This small museum, a branch of the Hong Kong Museum of History dating from 1990, is housed in two restored Hakka village houses that have been standing in Chai Wan - a district of nondescript office buildings, warehouses and workers' flats - for more than two centuries. The quiet courtyard and surrounding bamboo groves are peaceful and evocative, and the displays - furniture, household items and farming implements - simple but charming.
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Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum
This burial vault dating from the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220) was discovered in 1955 when workers were levelling the hillside for a housing estate. It is one of Hong Kong's earliest surviving historical monuments and, believe it or not, was once on the coast.
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Police Museum
Housed in a former police station, this seldom-visited museum in neighbouring Wan Chai Gap, an attractive residential area en route to the Peak, deals with the history of the Hong Kong Police Force, which was formed in 1844. It's small and rather static although the intriguing Triad Societies Gallery and the very well-supplied Narcotics Gallery are worthwhile.
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Sai Kung Country Park Visitor Centre
While you're in Pak Tam Chung, visit the Sai Kung Country Park Visitor Centre, which is to the south of the village, just by the road from Sai Kung. It has excellent maps, photographs and displays of the area's geology, fauna and flora as well as its traditional villages and Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park.
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Sam Tung Uk Museum
This imaginative and well-tended museum is housed in a restored late-18th-century Hakka walled village, whose former residents, the Chan clan, were only resettled in 1980. Within the complex are a dozen three-beamed houses containing traditional Hakka furnishings, kitchenware, wedding items and agricultural implements, most of which came from two 17th-century Hakka villages in Bao'an county in Guangdong province.
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Sheung Yiu Folk Museum
This museum is a leisurely 20-minute walk from Pak Tam Chung south along the 1km-long Pak Tam Chung Nature Trail. The museum is part of a restored Hakka village typical of those found here in the 19th century. The village was founded about 150 years ago by the Wong clan, which built a kiln to make bricks. In the whitewashed dwellings, are farm implements, objects of daily use, furnishings and Hakka clothing.
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