Museum
Hong Kong Space Museum
Egg-shaped waterfront dome housing the world's first computerized planetarium, with OMNIMAX films and space exhibits.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Hong Kong Space Museum traces the campaign of Joseph Liu Hing-chai, who convinced Hong Kong's Urban Council in 1972 that the city needed a planetarium as the space age arrived. It follows the egg-shaped dome from groundbreaking in 1977 to its opening in 1980, and the technology that made its theater unlike anything else in Asia. Stand on Salisbury Road to take in the dome's shape before you start listening.
This audio guide was created using AI.