Hong Kong Museum of History

About

The Hong Kong Museum of History traces back to the City Museum and Art Gallery, founded inside Hong Kong City Hall in 1962. Renamed the Hong Kong Museum of Art Gallery in 1969, the institution split in 1975 into the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Hong Kong Museum, which moved to its present site in Tsim Sha Tsui East in July 1998 and took its current name, the Hong Kong Museum of History, on the first of April that year. The building, with a total floor area of 17,500 square metres, stands beside the Hong Kong Science Museum and holds a collection of more than 170,000 items. Its first permanent exhibition, The Hong Kong Story, opened on 30 August 2001, filling eight galleries across two floors and 7,000 square metres with over 4,000 exhibits that carried visitors from the Devonian period, some 400 million years ago, through to the 1997 Handover; by the time it closed for renovation on 19 October 2020, it had drawn more than 11.6 million cumulative visitors. A new Hong Kong Story reopened on 1 April 2026, arranging more than 2,800 artifacts across ten galleries under four thematic chapters and using immersive staging to trace 6,000 years of history, with an emphasis on the roots Hong Kong shares with mainland China. Admission remains free.