City Gallery

Hong Kong


This museum attached to Hong Kong City Hall is dedicated to local infrastructure projects, past, present and future. Some of the most interesting sections are on Hong Kong's land reclamation and environmental protection to counter the territory's rapid urbanisation.


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1. Cenotaph

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This stone monument is an exact replica of the cenotaph in Whitehall, London. It was originally built to honour Hong Kong's WWI dead, and later modified…

2. Old Supreme Court Building

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The colonnaded and domed building (c 1912) was built of granite quarried on Stonecutters Island, and served as the seat of the Legislative Council from…

3. Statue Square

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This leisurely square used to house effigies of British royalty. Now it pays tribute to a single sovereign – the founder of HSBC. In the northern area …

4. Jardine House

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This 52-storey silver monolith punctured by 1750 porthole-like windows was Hong Kong’s first true ‘skyscraper’ when it opened in 1973. Inevitably the…

5. Old Bank of China Building

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Constructed in 1950, the old Bank of China building now houses the bank’s Central branch and, on its top floors, the exclusive members-only China Club,…

6. Hong Kong Observation Wheel

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In the perpetually under-construction waterfront area near Central Piers, this 60m enclosed Ferris wheel is hardly the highest spot in Hong Kong, but is…

7. Bank of China Tower

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The awesome 70-storey Bank of China Tower, designed by IM Pei and completed in 1990, rises from the ground like a cube, and is then successively reduced,…

8. Exchange Square

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This complex of office towers houses the Hong Kong Stock Exchange but what comes as a complete surprise in Central's urban forest is the attractive,…