Hong Kong Heritage Museum

Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Traditional Chinese	香港文化博物館
Yale Romanization
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Hēung góng màhn faa bok maht gún
Jyutping	Hoeng1 gong2 man4 faa3 bok3 mat6 gun2

Hong Kong Heritage Museum
	History museum
Public transit access	Che Kung Temple station
Website	hk.heritage.museum

Hong Kong Heritage Museum is a public museum of history, art and culture in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, located beside the Shing Mun River. The museum opened on 16 December 2000. It is managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong Kong Government.^[1] The six permanent exhibits and the original temporary exhibits were designed by design firm Reich+Petch along with Lord Cultural Resources.

The museum building is the largest in Hong Kong, and can accommodate up to 6,000 visitors.^[2]

Features

The Museum has been designed to provide comprehensive exhibitions on history, art and culture. The Museum has a number of interactive exhibitions and programmes. It also houses a cafe and museum shop.

There are six permanent exhibition galleries for the display of the museum's collections and six thematic galleries for temporary exhibitions.^[1] Permanent galleries include:

New Territories Heritage Hall (closed in June 2016)
Children's Discovery Gallery
Cantonese Opera
Heritage Hall
T.T.Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art, displaying artifacts from the former Tsui Museum of Art
Chao Shao-an Gallery
Jin Yong Gallery Gallery (opened on 1 March 2017)

Other than galleries, the museum has a 350-seat theatre for various performing arts and talks, including regular Cantonese opera performance. The museum possesses over 30,000 items related to Cantonese opera, which is a designated intangible cultural heritage of Hong Kong and the region.^[3]