Exhibition in History Museum Features Hong Kong's PastA permanent exhibition in the Hong Kong Museum of History, featuring the city's past, is expected to open to the public from August 30 this year.Occupying an area of 7,000 square meters, "The Hong Kong Story" comprises eight galleries located on two floors. Through the display of over 3,700 exhibits with the use of 750 graphic panels and 53 interactive programs, the exhibition promises the visitors an amazing cultural and historical journey of Hong Kong in the past 400 million years. Chief Curator of the Museum Joseph Ting Sun-pao noted that the exhibition is a showcase of the dedicated hard work done by the Museum staff in the past 26 years in collecting, preserving and researching the history and development of Hong Kong. He also noted that with a rich mixture of ecological settings, panoramic screens, dioramas, interactive programs and artifacts, the exhibition outlined the natural environment, cultural heritage and historical development of Hong Kong in a life-like manner. |
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