I would never have imagined that the government of Hong Kong could create an awe-inspiring museum such as this. It covers everything from archeology, anthropology, architecture, sociology, popular culture to animal and plant life! They have real artifacts from centuries and millenniums past, life-size mock stores and houses from decades ago, even a retired tram that you can walk in,... more

The Hong Kong Museum of History is excellent. It’s a huge museum, and gives a ‘timeline’ of Hong Kong, through various tableaux, exhibits, recreations and films. I think it would appeal to all ages, and English was used everywhere. It was astonishingly cheap to enter (HK$10), and we spent almost three hours there. It would have been longer, but it... more

This museum takes you for a walk through time. It starts at the very beginning when Hakka settlers from China came to Hong Kong on their live-aborad Junk boats. As you walk through the museum, there are various movie rooms, displays and recreations of old pawn shops or post offices which were typical in the colonial days. There are also... more

We had read about the Hong Kong Museum of History in the Hong Kong Lonely Planet Guide. We were especially interested in visiting the permanent exhibit "The Story of Hong Kong". We were so impressed with the museum that during our 2-week trip we visited it three times (which was not difficult to do given the entrance fee is HK$10).... more