Hong Kong Museum of History
History museum spanning eight thousand years, from prehistoric fossils to the nineteen ninety-seven handover.
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This guide to the Hong Kong Museum of History opens inside a gallery built to feel like an air-raid shelter, marking December eighth, nineteen forty-one, when Japanese forces crossed into the colony hours after Pearl Harbour. You'll hear about the eighteen-day fight, the surrender on Christmas Day, and the rationing coupons, permits and posters that document daily life under occupation afterward. From there the museum opens into ten galleries spanning eight thousand years, from prehistoric fossils to Qing dynasty merchant houses and a recreated nineteen-thirties street. Take time in the street re-creation, where a working tram and a century-old medicine shop sit side by side.
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