Hong Kong’s news museum will show history as it happened
The Hong Kong News-Expo, scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2018, will be free and open to all, at the historic Bridges Street Market
Hong Kong’s first news museum is set to open in 2018 to document the city’s history as seen by the media of the day, according to the city’s former police commissioner, who is in charge of the project.
Tang King-shing, police commissioner from 2007 to 2011 and the Hong Kong News-Expo’s management committee chairman since 2014, said the future news hub would serve a dual purpose of being an educational experience and a visitors’ centre in a historic neighbourhood.
Aside from being a revitalisation scheme for the three-storey building, the government-funded project of HK$85.3 million also has other goals.
“We hope to tell the history of Hong Kong through media as they told the stories of the day,” Tang, 61, told the Post. “That way, visitors, the local public or tourists, would appreciate the changes that Hong Kong has gone through over the years,” he added.
Tang’s management committee is working alongside finance, project management and programme teams under the News-Expo board, chaired by former government information chief John Chan Cho-chak. The board is operated under the Journalism Education Foundation, chaired by veteran broadcaster Chan Suk-mei.