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City Gallery

Traditional Chinese

展城館

Simplified Chinese

展城馆

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhǎnchéngguǎn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	zin2 sing4 gun2

City Gallery is an exhibition centre about the planning and development of urban areas in Hong Kong. It is located at Edinburgh Place in Central, Victoria City. It is a public relations effort of the Planning Department of the Hong Kong government.

History

It was previously known as the Hong Kong Planning and Infrastructure Exhibition Gallery (Chinese: 香港規劃及基建展覽館) and was set up in 2002 on the ground floor of the City Hall annex building as a temporary exhibition gallery, pending the establishment of a full-fledged permanent exhibition gallery which will occupy the entire City Hall Annex Building.

To make way for the refurbishment and expansion works at the City Hall Annex, the temporary gallery was relocated to the ground floor of the Murray Road Multi-storey Car Park in mid-2009 to maintain continuous services to the public.

The permanent gallery reopened in the City Hall annex building on 20 August 2012.

In 2019, the revamp work has been taken in place on the G/F, the 3rd Floor and the 4th Floor and was completed in May 2021.

Description

The gallery showcases the planning proposals and infrastructure projects of the Hong Kong Government. It's a building consists of fourth floors with various themes, showing numerous exhibits including Planning Eye, Hong Kong Next Century, Sustainable Hong Kong, Coastlines & Skylines and Hong Kong Now and Then etc. Interactive features and devices give visitors the latest information on planning and infrastructure developments in Hong Kong.

Admission is free of charge.

Route

Ground Floor

- looking at the journey of Hong Kong's planning and infrastructure development in a glimpse
- comparing basic information of Hong Kong and 10 other world cities through our interactive screen
- showcases 10 sustainable projects in different cities
- video interviews of people about their impression towards our city
- holding various types of exhibitions related to architecture

Planning Eye
Great World Cities
City Impression

First Floor

- displaying a collection of local unique features
- our short video will present you numerous elements and principles related to a harmonious living environment
- our short video will present you numerous elements and principles related to a harmonious living environment
- - visions of future from people around the world

Second Floor

- displaying a collection of local transportation features
- introducing the visions and goals of Hong Kong's strategic spatial planning
- a hidden network of tunnels, cables and transportation infrastructure
- introduce Hong Kong transportation network
- short videos about sustainable developments

Third Floor

- a double floor hall can be used as a thematic exhibition area
- a double floor hall can be used as a thematic exhibition area
- displaying history of the Hong Kong infrastructure developments through our interactive screen
- visitors can witness the transformation of Hong Kong coastline since 1900

Theatre 1 & Theatre 2
Planning Timeline
Coastlines & Skylines

Fourth Floor

- photo exhibition presenting the history of the Hong Kong infrastructure development
- with our motion sensor, visitors can study changes of various places in Hong Kong on our interactive screen
- with our motion sensor, visitors can study changes of various places in Hong Kong on our interactive screen
- the first Tactile and Audio system to be installed permanently in Hong Kong

Visionary Hong Kong 200
Hong Kong Now and Then
Treasure Hunt
Inclusive City

Transportation

The gallery is accessible within walking distance West from Central station of MTR.

Patrons can reach the City Gallery by the following public transport services:

MTR: Admiralty Station B Exit, Central Station K Exit and Hong Kong Station A Exit
Ferry: Star Ferry
Bus:
New World First Bus (2, 13, 15, 18, 18P, 18X, 720, 720P)
Citybus (5X, 37B, 37X, 70, 70P, 260, 780, 788, 962P, 962S, 967, 969A)
Kowloon Motor Bus (619X)
New World First Bus and Citybus (115, 115P, 619, 619P, 680x, 690P)
Minibus: MiniBus (8, 9, 22, 22S, 54)
Tram: Hong Kong Tramways