Hong Kong Science Museum
Hong Kong Science Museum is a science so-themed museum, located in Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon West, adjacent to Hong Kong Museum of History, formerly Chatham barracks, now by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. In the year 2005, the number of Hong Kong Science Museum visitors reached 927,000 people, is the LCSD more than a dozen museums, the average annual trips to visit most museums. Hong Kong Science Museum 4-storey, a total of 16 exhibition, gross floor area of 13,500 square meters, has about 500 exhibits, covering all different kinds of science, of which about 70% of the exhibits for visitors to personally operate. Science Museum and the whole building is a flexible network architecture. In the hall outside, gray and column is structural building this network, pink brick wall portion of the press needs renovation, the Science Museum in future expansion or modification of exhibition space, without big changes to the structure.
Hong Kong Science Museum early in 1976 by the now defunct program of the Urban Council constructed and completed further studies in the 1980s, the site Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon. February 1, 1988 the official start of construction of the Hong Kong Science Museum, on November 8, 1990 completed by the British Princess Alexandra presided over the inauguration of the Hong Kong Science Museum, and officially opened on April 18, 1991. And with the construction of the Science Museum, Science Museum is located in the west (ie, Chatham Road camp site) of the Hong Kong Science Museum leisure park, due to the construction of the Urban Council of Hong Kong Museum of History and forced removal in 1997, while outside the open-air Museum Place the original fountain device also being rebuilt in 2001.
Scenic Area Address: No. Science Museum Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, Yau Tsim Mong District 2.
Car lines: 1, from TST MTR station B2 exit about 18 minutes to walk along the east direction TST Cameron Road; 2, walk about 20 minutes to the east direction from Jordan MTR TST station D along Austin Road exit; 3, take Citybus 973p, 973, a21, e21x go.