Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence
香港海防博物館 | |
Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence name relief. | |
| Established | 25 July 2000 |
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| Location | 175 Tung Hei Road, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong |
| Type | Public |
| Owner | Government of Hong Kong |
| Website | hk |
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| Traditional Chinese | 香港海防博物館 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 香港海防博物馆 | ||||||||||||
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The Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence is a public museum in Hong Kong, located in a former coastal defence fort overlooking the Lei Yue Mun channel, near Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island. The fort was built by the British in 1887, intended to defend the eastern approaches to Victoria Harbour.
The total area of the museum is 34,200 square metres (368,000 sq ft). An exhibition entitled "600 years of Coastal Defence" is held permanently in the museum, which tells the story of the defence of the Hong Kong coastline from the time of the Ming Dynasty, through the First and Second Opium Wars and the Battle of Hong Kong, through to today.
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