Hong Kong Space Museum
We visited the Hong Kong Space Museum a few years ago. The space museum was built in 1977, and was opened to the public in 1980. We stumbled upon it while exploring the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Kowloon. Facade of the Hong Kong Space Museum The museum is composed of an east and west wing. On the east wing is the 23-meter domed structure that houses the space theater. T he planetarium uses an OMNIMAX projector, the first one to use it in the eastern hemisphere. T he Hall of Space Science is also in this wing. The Hall of Astronomy, the gift shop and the lecture halls are found in the west wing. On the hall of astronomy you can find displays relating to basic astronomy, constellations and stars, comets and meteors, and a bit-sensationalized display about planetary collisions . Model of a Congreve rocket and an ancient Chinese rocket Most of the exhibits in the museum's Hall of Space Science are models. What I found most interesting are the...