Trip Moments Recommendations
Earth Science Exhibition to handle curious kids
If your curious kid asked questions like how the Earth was formed, or you are new to HK and wonders what is typhoon or the hexagonal rock columns in the Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark - do come check out the Earth Science Gallery at 1/F Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong Science Museum.
Here it illustrates the answer in an interactive and more interesting way than just reading from books or Wikipedia.
Not only is the exhibition free of charge, the museum offers free workshop about Earth Science.
The gallery offers learning through play experience, which complex and abstract concepts are demonstrated. For example plate tectonics, climate change, typhoons (especially if there are no typhoons in your home country) and different types of beautiful minerals.
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An archaeological discovery in the MTR station
You don’t really have to go to the museum for an exhibition. The Sung Wong Toi 宋王臺MTR station, the location itself is already one of the major archaeological discoveries in HK. As the young generation in HK, I haven’t heard of the Sacred Hill before, until I came across with this exhibition.
“Treasures from Sacred Hill” - Song-Yuan Archaeological Discoveries at Sung Wong Toi
Sacred Hill聖山 (aka Hill of the King of Sung), that no longer exists, is the location which becomes what we called Sung Wong Toi. The penultimate emperor of the Song 宋Dynasty was believed to stay on the hill upon his escape from Yuan 元.
The hill was partially flattened during the Japanese Occupation, and then completely levelled in the 1950s for the expansion of Kai Tak airport.
During the construction of the Sung Wong Toi MTR station, relics from the Song and Yuan periods, including massive of celadon wares, were unearthed in the discovery.
There exhibited incense burners with monster decorations, tiles with family names, household utensils such as bowls and basins with carved design or painting. My favourite ones are the cutie goldfish and the tiny dices.
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"Light of Jinsha - The Ancient Shu Civilisation"
"Light of Jinsha - The Ancient Shu Civilisation" exhibition at The Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre
The Jinsha site was a recent archaeological discovery in 2001. The major findings are mainly about the traditional cultural customs back in the ancient Shu of 4,000 years ago.
The exhibition was not big but there were some interesting relics. My favourite one is the stone set of a tiger, a snake and a kneeling figurine with hands tied at the back. It is believed to be a human sacrifice activity, relating to religion or even occult.
There were two grade-one national treasures, gold artefacts - a face-shaped gold foil and a frog-like gold foil.
The most significant treasure unearthed at the site was the "gold foil sunbird", but only the replica was exhibited here instead.
Majority included utensils made of ivory, gold, bronze and jade.
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