Museums of Remembrance and Forgetting

Museums tell a story as much by what they omit as what they contain. The National Museum of American History includes displays of all aspects of the country’s past and welcomes about three million visitors a year. But two key groups – African Americans and Native...

A Brief History of Art

“Chronology is our mental scaffolding for organising historical reasoning. It provides us with a strong sense of the continuity and incidences of time in order to understand historical causality,” says the introductory page of the Hong Kong Art Timeline, a project put...

Poetry in Motion

The discovery of a friendship between Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and Chinese poet Ai Qing in the 1950s became the starting point of research by Dr Bárbara Fernández Melleda, Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures,...

Lest We Forget

More than 200 military relics from World War II (WWII) are scattered around Hong Kong, including gun batteries, pillboxes (PBs), the air raid tunnels now housing the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence at Shau Kei Wan, as well as fortifications along the Gin Drinker’s...

Hong Kong History in Pictures

The collection of more than 24,000 images, was amassed by Frank Fischbeck who first came to Hong Kong in the 1970s as a photojournalist for LIFE magazine. In this capacity, and later as Managing Director of FormAsia Books he began taking photos documenting daily life...