'Good or bad, it's Hong Kong history' says British colonial museum founder

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HONG KONG - Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong's British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is firmly back in the fold of the mainland. Ong, 42, has been collecting colonial memorabilia since he was a child and last year opened The Museum...

The colonial badge “harbour picture” redesigned by the museum is seen at the Museum Victoria City, in Hong Kong, China, taken on June 15, 2022.HONG KONG - Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong's British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is firmly back in the fold of the mainland.

Ong's grandmother gave him a medal of a Hong Kong-based British Gurkha soldier as a gift when he was a child, inspiring his fascination with the city's history. Hong Kong's colonial-era ended on July 1, 1997, after 156 years, marking for China the return of an integral part of its territory separated from the motherland for too long by the designs of colonialists.

 

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