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Hongkong heritage
Hongkong heritage is a testimony to our exclusive past and helps describe our cultural identity. The Antiquities and Monuments Office is the Government Hongkong heritage expert on all aspects of the protection of Hongkong archaeological and built Hong Kong heritage. We strive to protect and hand on to our future generations the cultural Hongkong heritage which is diverse, sustainable, and available and makes a direct contribution to our quality of life. We are also dedicated to presenting and explaining our protection work to the wider public to enhance their understanding and pleasure and the value they place on our shared Hongkong heritage. The Hongkong Heritage Discovery Centre is set up to achieve this vision.
The Centre occupies the Hongkong heritage Blocks S61 and S62 of the previous Whitfield Barracks at Kowloon Park. Built in circa 1910, they were used for accommodating British troops until 1967 when the military lands were returned to the Government for redevelopment for vacation services. They were used by the Hongkong Museum of Hongkong heritage as its provisional premises from 1983 to 1998 until the new museum composite was built in Tsim Sha Tsui East. The Centre has opened its door to visitors since October 2005 with its thematic exhibition gallery, lecture hall, educational activity room and suggestion library. A standing exhibition on Hongkong heritage will be open.
Hongkong has come under deep Chinese and British cultural influences, which are apparent in the Hongkong heritage preserves. Different branches of this Hongkong heritage such as history, monuments, museums and architecture carry these predominant educational streams. Lack of space has given its own space to Hongkong architecture as Hongkong heritage. The British and Chinese styles of architecture have had their blow on Hongkong heritage. Eastern and western ways have come together to create the architecture of present Hongkong.
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