Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware
Oldest surviving Western-style building in Hong Kong, now a free museum of Chinese teaware spanning three millennia.
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This guide to the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware in Hong Kong opens in December 1941, as British shells fall on the Commander-in-Chief's mansion, and follows an irony: the Japanese occupiers who later repaired the damage and moved in themselves. It traces the building's path from military residence to a collection of Chinese tea vessels donated by businessman Dr K.S. Lo. Look for the wide verandas and Greek Revival columns that have outlasted every occupant.
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