Sun Yat Sen Museum

Dr. Sun Yat Sen Museum 孫中山紀念館

Opened in 2006
Located in the Soho area of Hong Kong Island
Previously the Kom Tong Hall of the Church of the Latter Day Saints
Insight into the life and works of the Chinese nationalist and revolutionary
Building dates from 1914

Chinese nationalist and revolutionary Sun Yat-sen (1870-1925) agitated to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and declare a Chinese republic.

Attending high school and university in Hong Kong, Sun Yat-sen graduated in medicine from the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (which later became The University of Hong Kong).

Exhibits

The four-storey museum, originally the residence of the local businessman Ho Kom-tong and more recently the former Hong Kong headquarters of the Church of Latter Day Saints, contains a collection of artefacts relating to the life of Dr. Sun Yat Sen including clothing, seals, manuscripts, a replica of his marriage certificate to Soong Ching Ling and a large number of contemporary photographs.

The museum also stages special exhibitions relating to Chinese history of the time of Sun Yat Sen's life and a reading room with books on Dr Sun Yat-sen and the 1911 Revolution.

Access - Getting To Dr. Sun Yat Sen Museum

Ride the Mid-Levels Escalator from Central to Caine Road or take buses #3B, #12, #12M, #13, #23, #23A, #23B, #40, #40M or #103 from Central; #40M and #103 from Pok Fu Lam. The nearest MTR stations are Central (20 minutes' walk), Sai Ying Pun (15 minutes) or Sheung Wan (15 minutes).

Dr Sun Yat Sen Museum (hk.drsunyatsen.museum)
7 Castle Road, Central
Tel: 2367 6373

Hours: Monday to Wednesday, Friday: 10 am - 6 pm; Saturday, Sunday and public holidays: 10 am - 7 pm; Christmas Eve and Chinese New Year's Eve: 10 am - 5 pm Closed on Thursdays (except public holidays, the anniversaries of Dr Sun's birth on 12 November and death on 12 March), and the first two days of Chinese New Year.

Admission: Admission is free to the two permanent exhibitions: "Dr Sun Yat-sen and Modern China" and "Hong Kong in Dr Sun Yat-sen's Time."

An English language pamphlet is available at the museum which has a Sun Yat Sen Trail from which visitors can walk a set route to see places in Hong Kong associated with the life of the great man.

Sun Yat Sen Memorial House in Macau.