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If you're a history buff, art aficionado, archaeology fiend, or dabbler in the sciences, our museum picks are perfect for a rainy day or afternoon excursion! Our selections center around notable collections of historical and cultural items. Many have excellent rotating displays in addition to exceptional permanent collections.
Airport Core Programme Exhibition Centre
Category: Museums - Hong Kong Attractions & Activities
Address: 401 Castle Peak Rd, Hong Kong
This vast new airport was the largest civil engineering project ever undertaken – worldwide. At this museum, visitors can see the complex project as it took shape. The ferry ride to Tsuen Wan offers excellent views on the way to the museum, and once there, you can see scale models of the airport, photos from various stages of the project, and...
Category: Museums - Hong Kong Attractions & Activities
Address: Stanley Plaza, Murray House, Hong Kong
Learn all about Hong Kong's fascinating maritime history at this museum located in a 19th century colonnaded building at Stanley Plaza. The museum is divided into galleries covering the ages of sail and steam, with exhibits that feature beautifully detailed models of ancient and modern ships made from wood, pottery and ivory; paintings, textiles,...
Category: Museums - Hong Kong Attractions & Activities
Address: 10 Salisbury Rd, Hong Kong
The top arts museum in the city, the Hong Kong Museum of Art displays a large and varied collection, with over 14,000 pieces of Chinese art including ceramics, bronzes, lacquer pieces, calligraphy works, bamboo carvings, oil paintings and drawings. There are five permanent galleries and two that offer temporary exhibits. Look for ancient Chinese...
Category: Museums - Hong Kong Attractions & Activities
Address: 100 Chatham Rd S, Hong Kong
Chinese history has taken dramatic twists and turns over the past three millenia, and this museum offers detailed exhibits that take you through every aspect of the country's development. Beginning in Neolithic times and running right up to today, some of the top attractions include a recreation of a Hong Kong street of a century ago and photo...
Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences
Category: Museums - Hong Kong Attractions & Activities
Address: 2 Caine Ln, Hong Kong
This intriguing museum traces the relatively recent history of medical science in Hong Kong. In 1906, in response to Hong Kong's ongoing epidemic of bubonic plague, the Bacteriological Institute opened in this building as the city's first medical laboratory. Over the decades the focus changed (as did the name, to the Pathological Institute), and...
Category: Museums - Hong Kong Attractions & Activities
Address: 2 Science Museum Rd, Hong Kong
This informative, interactive museum offers a broad range of exhibits that are certain to grab your attention. Four floors with hundreds of exhibits explore topics such as geography, robotics, transportation, magnetism, and quantum physics. Everyone can get involved by walking through a rotating room, speaking into a parabolic disk to your friend...
Category: Museums - Hong Kong Attractions & Activities
Address: 10 Salisbury Rd, Hong Kong
This waterside museum delves into the fascinating topics related to the last frontier. The Space Theater in the Hall of Astronomy features mind-boggling Omnimax shows on an immense screen that wraps you in 360 degrees of celestial panorama. You'll also find a massive planetarium with a 75-foot domed roof as well as hands-on exhibits that let you...
Category: Museums - Hong Kong Attractions & Activities
Address: 41 Tonkin St, Hong Kong
This museum is home to the city's oldest historic monument, a tomb from the Han Dynasty that dates back 2000 years. The tomb was discovered in the 1950s by workers building new housing and has been carefully preserved at the site. An arm of the Museum of History in Tsim Sha Tsui, the museum itself is small, but the history of the tomb and the...
Category: Museums - Hong Kong Attractions & Activities
Address: 2 Kwu Uk Ln, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong
The name means "three-beamed dwelling," and this museum offers an educational look at a recreated rural walled village circa 1800. Once a Hakka dwelling, it features an elaborately decorated ancestral hall, period furniture, and halls showcasing farming equipment, kitchen utensils, and other features crucial to everyday life in that period.
University Museum & Art Gallery
Category: Museums - Hong Kong Attractions & Activities
Address: 94 Bonham Rd, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
This small museum is not one of the most visited attractions, but that makes this excellent collection of art and objects even more appealing, since you don't have to elbow through throngs to see the treasures. The big draw includes the 467 Nestorian bronze crosses; the museum actually has almost a thousand, but they aren't all shown at once. In...
