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Museums

TODO — what museums in Hong Kong are actually worth the time.

4 places
M+, Hong Kongmust see
West Kowloon

M+

Asia's first global museum of visual culture, in a Herzog and de Meuron building with a screen on the side of it.

Hong Kong Palace Museum, Hong Kongmust see
West Kowloon

Hong Kong Palace Museum

Nine hundred objects on long loan from Beijing's Forbidden City, in a building shaped like an inverted ritual vessel.

Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kongmust see
Tsim Sha Tsui East

Hong Kong Museum of History

Four hundred million years in eight galleries, from the Devonian to the handover, with a full-size fishing junk in the middle.

Tai Kwun, Hong Kongmust see
Central

Tai Kwun

The former Central Police Station, magistracy and prison, restored into a free arts and heritage complex.