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Hong Kong Space Museum’s exhibit halls set for relaunch after HK$32 million facelift

Disorientation in virtual space station and creating an aurora inside a vacuum tube just some of the new experiences that await visitors

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Exhibits at the Hall of the Cosmos in the Hong Kong Space Museum. Photo: Sam Tsang
Elizabeth Cheung

Visitors to the Hong Kong Space Museum will enjoy a more interactive experience when two exhibition halls reopen to the public from Wednesday, after it closed for more than two years for a HK$32 million (US$4.1 million) facelift. 

Experiencing a sensation of disorientation in a virtual space station and creating an aurora inside a vacuum tube were just some of the new experiences that awaited visitors in the two permanent exhibition halls, which covered a total area of 17,200 sq ft in the Tsim Sha Tsui museum.  

The Hall of the Cosmos and Hall of Space Exploration would showcase about 100 new exhibits. 

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The Disorientation in Space exhibit. Photo: Sam Tsang
The Disorientation in Space exhibit. Photo: Sam Tsang
Before renovations started in late 2015, the halls contained about 60 exhibits, with fewer than half containing interactive and multimedia elements. 

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“We hope visitors will have more of an experience and learn through activities,” museum curator Robert Leung Wai-ming said on Tuesday.

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