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Hong Kong Maritime Museum’s Dutch director on how a boy who grew up far from the sea came to devote his life to the history of seafaring

• Though he grew up a long way inland, Joost Schokkenbroek has spent his career as a maritime historian in his native Netherlands, North America and now Hong Kong
• He tells Thomas Bird about the Hong Kong museum’s ‘third chapter’ – adding marine science to its existing focus on history and art – and exploring the city