The Hong Kong Space Museum’s white dome is a familiar curve on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront. Its shape houses a planetarium, while the adjoining galleries make astronomy and space science accessible through models, interactive displays, and the experience of looking up.
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The Hong Kong Space Museum’s smooth egg-shaped dome stands against the waterfront skyline. The Hong Kong Space Museum was designed by Joseph Ming Gun Lee of the Public Works Department and opened in 1980 as Hong Kong’s first planetarium.
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- The museum was commissioned in October 1980.
- Joseph Ming Gun Lee was the chief architect.
- Its Space Theatre projection dome is 23 metres in diameter.
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