Sights in Hong Kong
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Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre
On the eastern edge of Hong Kong park, is the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, housed in the Cassels Block of the former Victoria Barracks. It supports local sculptors, printmakers and potters, and stages exhibitions.
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Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts
With its striking triangular atrium and an exterior Meccano-like frame (a work of art in itself), the academy building (1985) is a Wan Chai landmark and an important venue for music, dance and scholarship.
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Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum
Mock cells, gallows and flogging stands are the gruesome draws at this museum, about 500m southeast of Stanley Village Rd, which traces the history of jails, prisons and other forms of incarceration in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong Observatory
This historic monument, built in 1883, is sadly not open to the public. It continues to monitor Hong Kong’s weather and sends out those frightening signals when a typhoon is heading for the territory.
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Repulse Bay
A posh beach suburb, Repulse Bay is Hong Kong’s most famous beach and home to some of its richest residents. The hills around the beach are strewn with luxury apartment blocks, and more are on their way.
The long beach with tawny sand at Repulse Bay is visited by Chinese tourist groups year-round and, needless to say, packed on weekends in summer. It’s a good place if you like people-watching. The beach has showers and changing rooms and shade trees at the roadside, but the water is pretty murky.
Towards the southeast end of Repulse Bay beach is Kwun Yam Shrine (觀音廟), an unusual shrine to Kwun Yam. The surrounding area has an amazing assembly of deities and figures –…
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Maryknoll Convent School
A russet sprawl of cloistered courtyards and medieval towers, Hong Kong’s most beautiful school was set up in 1937 to provide an inspired alternative to colonial-style education. Call about open days.
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Old Wan Chai Post Office
A short distance to the east of Wan Chai Market is this tiny colonial-style building erected in 1913 and now serving as a resource centre operated by the Environmental Protection Department.
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Shek Kip Mei Estate, Mei Ho House
A future youth hostel, there’s grace in the simplicity of this remaining block of Hong Kong’s earliest public housing estate, built in 1953 for the victims of a squatter fire.
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Amelia Johnson Contemporary
This gallery shows the works of emerging and established artists from Hong Kong and overseas in a range of media. It also runs an annual exhibition of works by promising young artists.
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KS Lo Gallery
The KS Lo Gallery, in a building southeast of the Hong Kong park's tea-ware museum, contains rare Chinese ceramics and stone seals collected by the gallery’s eponymous benefactor.
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Tin Hau Temple
If you’ve got time to spare, a short walk through Aberdeen will bring you to a renovated Tin Hau temple. Built in 1851, it’s a sleepy spot but remains an active house of worship.
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Cattle Depot Artist Village
A century-old slaughterhouse deep in the entrails of Kowloon has reincarnated into an artists’ village, its red-brick buildings housing studios and exhibition halls. Though many are closed during the day, the depot is an interesting place to explore. To ensure the doorman lets you in, call a tenant ahead of time to let them know you’re coming. Friendly 1a Space keeps regular opening times. And so does Artist Commune. The village is in the northern part of To Kwa Wan, an area on the east coast of Kowloon. You’ll see a Town Gas storage facility close to the village.
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Nan Lian Garden
This splendid Tang-style garden connected to Chi Lin Nunnery is adorned with a pagoda, tea pavilion, koi pond, Buddhist pines, and sedimentary boulders resembling clouds.
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Grotto Fine Art
This is the only gallery that represents exclusively Hong Kong artists. It features modern and contemporary works, from painting and sculpture to installation pieces.
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YY9 Gallery
Founded by a furnishing design consultant, this gallery shows local contemporary art in a range of media, from painting and photography to sculpture and ceramics.
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Hung Shing Shrine
Close to the harbour is a Hung Shing shrine, a chaotic collection of altars and smoking, ovenlike incense pots. It is a short walk from Aberdeen bus terminus.
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Old Stanley Police Station
The most interesting building in the village itself is this two-storey structure from 1859. It now contains, less interestingly, a Wellcome supermarket.
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Sin Sin Fine Art
This eclectic gallery owned and run by a local fashion designer shows Hong Kong, mainland Chinese and Southeast Asian art.
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Edge Gallery
This up-and-coming gallery specialises in photography, painting and mixed-media art from Hong Kong and the mainland.
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10 Chancery Lane Gallery
This gallery specialises in contemporary works by local, regional and international artists.
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Arch Angel Contemporary Art
An art gallery, Arch Angel Contemporary Art deals in fine art.
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Hong Kong Space Museum & Theatre
This golf-ball-shaped building on the waterfront houses two exhibition halls and a planetarium with a large concave screen. Films are mostly narrated in Cantonese but translations by headsets are available (2734 2722 for show times and prices). The museum has a dated feel, but kids and kidults should have a blast with the virtual paraglider and ‘moon-walking’. The museum shop sells dehydrated ‘astronaut’ ice cream in three flavours.
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