Hong Kong Cultural Museum

Located at 1 Wenlin Road, Shatin, the Hong Kong Museum of culture is a comprehensive museum in Hong Kong covering history, art and culture. The design of the museum is based on the traditional Chinese courtyard layout and modern architectural techniques.

The "children's discovery Pavilion" in the Hong Kong Cultural Museum, with the theme of caring for Hong Kong's nature and understanding Hong Kong's history, guides children to explore the mysteries of archaeology, and sets up an exhibition of "Xiangjiang children's play" to attract visitors to participate actively in the form of games and interaction. Named after Professor Zhao shaoang, a master of traditional Chinese painting of Lingnan School, Zhao shaoang Art Museum mainly displays Professor Zhao's representative works, manuscripts and sketching works. The new territories Heritage Museum is a long-term exhibition hall featuring the history of the new territories. Visitors can travel through eight time tunnels, namely natural environment, prehistoric life, trade and coastal defense, fishermen's glimpse, rural landscape, British governance, new town development and future construction, to learn about the history and social changes of the new territories over the years. "Cantonese Opera Museum" allows visitors to experience the feeling of being in the theater and backstage. The unique costumes, cosmetics and literature of Cantonese Opera are displayed in the exhibition cabinet. The stalls in the museum give visitors a chance to review the past performances and experience the unique opera art of Guangdong Province. The Hong Kong Museum of culture is a leisure and cultural service.

Hong Kong Cultural Museum

Located at 1 Wenlin Road, Shatin, the Hong Kong Museum of culture is a comprehensive museum in Hong Kong covering history, art and culture. The design of the museum is based on the traditional Chinese courtyard layout and modern architectural techniques.

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Hong Kong Cultural Museum

It is a comprehensive museum under the leisure and Cultural Services Department, covering different areas of history, art and culture.

In order to serve the audience, the museum aims to provide visitors with diversified and lively exhibitions and programs, so that they can enjoy the cultural relics and take part in the activities, learning and leisure.

In terms of exhibition facilities, the museum has 12 exhibition halls with an exhibition area of 7500 square meters. The six permanent exhibition halls include audio-visual guide hall, New Territories Heritage Museum, Cantonese Opera Heritage Museum, Xu zhantang Chinese Art Museum, Zhao shaoang Art Museum and children's Discovery Museum. The theme exhibition hall will introduce a variety of exhibition themes at different times to enhance visitors' interest in culture and art.

In terms of promotion and education, the museum publishes quarterly Museum newsletters, produces teaching resource books and worksheets, and also organizes lectures on culture, history and art, school programs, parent-child / children's activities, theater programs and guided tours to encourage different communities to participate in Museum activities.

The building of the Hong Kong Cultural Museum is centered on the central axis, symmetrically balanced from left to right, covered with Chinese tile roof, and the exhibition halls are connected by corridors. The building is five stories high, with a total area of 28500 square meters, including 12 exhibition halls. In addition to the six regularly updated thematic exhibitions, the museum has six permanent exhibition halls, which contribute to the introduction and preservation of Cantonese opera, New Territories cultural history and Chinese culture.

The "children's discovery Pavilion" in the Hong Kong Cultural Museum, with the theme of caring for Hong Kong's nature and understanding Hong Kong's history, leads children to explore the mysteries of archaeology, and sets up an exhibition of "Xiangjiang children's play" to attract visitors to participate actively in the form of games and interaction. Named after Professor Zhao shaoang, a master of traditional Chinese painting of Lingnan School, Zhao shaoang Art Museum mainly displays Professor Zhao's representative works, manuscripts and sketching works. The new territories Heritage Museum is a long-term exhibition hall featuring the history of the new territories. Visitors can travel through eight time tunnels, namely natural environment, prehistoric life, trade and coastal defense, fishermen's glimpse, rural landscape, British governance, new town development and future construction, to learn about the history and social changes of the new territories over the years. "Cantonese Opera Museum" allows visitors to experience the feeling of being in the theater and backstage. The unique costumes, cosmetics and literature of Cantonese Opera are displayed in the exhibition cabinet. The archives in the museum give visitors a chance to review the past performances and experience the unique opera art of Guangdong Province. The Hong Kong Museum of culture is a comprehensive museum of history, art and culture under the leisure and Cultural Services Department.

China has a large number of ethnic groups, ethnic costumes are rich in style, most of the ethnic minority costumes are gorgeous and colorful. In order to let the public know and appreciate the colorful costumes of China's ethnic minorities, the Hong Kong Museum of culture has held an exhibition entitled "colorful silver costumes - costumes of China's ethnic minorities".

Since the Tang Dynasty established the richest, most open and most influential clothing system in the history of Chinese clothing, China has gained the reputation of "Kingdom of clothes". Chinese national costumes are still dazzling and occupy an important position in the world. Chinese minority's clothes are colorful, and their design is closely related to living environment, mode of production, living habits, religious belief and aesthetic taste. Therefore, from appreciating the traditional costumes of these nationalities, we can realize the local unique cultural customs, artistic traditions, even religious rituals and so on. The exhibition is jointly organized by the Hong Kong leisure and Cultural Services Department, Beijing Municipal Bureau of cultural relics and Beijing Institute of fashion, CO organized by the textile, dyeing and Garment Association of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and planned by the Hong Kong Museum of culture and the National Costume Museum of Beijing Institute of fashion. According to Yang Yuan, curator of the National Costume Museum of Beijing Institute of fashion, 506 pieces of the museum's treasures are displayed in the exhibition, mainly including clothing and silver ornaments, including clothing of southern ethnic groups such as Miao and Zhuang, and various kinds of clothing of northern ethnic groups such as Mongolia and Hezhe, which are of great historical and ornamental value.

geographical position

Shatin is a residential area developed rapidly in recent 15 years. The original Sha Tin was just a small village with a few small houses along the coast of Tolo port. After the war, due to the large-scale reclamation of land from the sea, a residential community with high-rise apartments was soon formed. Shatin was originally called "Liyuan". Liyuan is the source of clear water, which is named after Chengmen river. During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), many farmers lived near the water. In its heyday, there were more than 50 villages, of which Shatin village was the most well-known.

In 1898, the new territories were leased to Britain. At that time, a British official visited Lek Yuen. When he asked the name of the place, a villager replied, "this is Shatin." Since then, the term "Shatin" has been used to refer to the whole Leyuan area.

In 1970, the Hong Kong government built a satellite city in the new territories to cope with the growing population. Shatin is a new town developed by the government in the early stage. It is located on reclaimed land.

After taking the Kowloon Canton Railway and passing the Kowloon Tong Station, the train enters the lion rock tunnel. When it leaves the tunnel, there is a large stone on the top of the mountain on its right hand, which is called Wangfu stone. It is said that this stone looks like a woman who is waiting for her husband to go out to sea with her children on her back. At first, she can't see the shape of a man. As the train turns to the right, she looks more and more like a man, which is very interesting.

On the flat ground in the middle of the left and right mountains, you can see many apartment buildings with the height of 30-40 floors. This apartment cluster is concentrated in Sha Tin. Shatin station is connected with the new city square, a very large shopping center, including Japan's 800 companion department store. Because there is only one shopping center here, people from surrounding communities come here for shopping, and customers are always full on weekends.

In addition, in the towering mountains around the residential area, there are still temples and Chengbi villages, which are in contrast with the modern residential area, which is very interesting. There is another place that should not be forgotten, that is, Shatin Racecourse, which is as famous as happy valley, begins to race enthusiastically in the peak season. During my stay in Hong Kong, if I catch up with the competition, I will be very happy to watch it once.

Shatin is centered on the new city square, which is a shopping center connected with the station. It also includes the surrounding communities, the surrounding mountains, the temples and Chengbi villages near the mountains.

The new city square is really big. It's amazing that the shopping mall outside Hong Kong is so big. There are many shops with people in them, which is totally different from the atmosphere of shopping in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. Visitors to temples and Chengbi village can come here to have a rest and have a meal.

In addition, if you go to the racecourse, there is a special station for the racecourse in Shatin before the station, where you can get off the nearest. It is most convenient for tourists who want to see both horse racing and Shatin during the race.

architectural composition

The museum adopts the traditional Chinese courtyard layout, and combines modern architectural techniques, with unique characteristics. The center of the building is the central axis, which is symmetrical and balanced. The museum building is five stories high, covered with Chinese tile roof, and each exhibition hall is connected by veranda. There are a number of permanent exhibition halls in the museum, including the new territories Heritage Museum, the Cantonese Opera Heritage Museum, which specializes in the performance and development of Cantonese Opera in Hong Kong, and the children's Discovery Museum, which introduces the natural and cultural history. Among them is the "Xiangjiang children's play" exhibition, which takes visitors to review the popular toys of Hong Kong in the past. The museum also covers a wide range of art collections in Hong Kong. Apart from Xu zhantang's Chinese Art Museum, there is Zhao shaoang's Art Museum, which includes numerous works of Zhao shaoang and other contemporary masters. There are also a number of special exhibition halls in the museum, displaying exhibits of different themes, including traditional Chinese woodblock printing and Hong Kong Comics.

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