Chatham Rd South Mon & Wed-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 10am-7pm. $10, Wed free. The Hong Kong Museum of History is an ambitious trawl through the region’s past, using videos, light shows, interactive software and life-sized reconstructions.

The museum’s most interesting section is a reproduction of a 1930s street with tea shops that smell of tea, and a herbalist’s niche filled with a bitter, pungent aroma. Perhaps what’s most surprising is that these shops don’t look much different from those in business in Mongkok and Sheung Wan today, almost a hundred years later. Noticeable gaps include little material on Hong Kong’s ethnic populations of Indians, Nepalese and Filipinos, and scant coverage of events after the 1997 handover.