2011-4-26 ~ 07-22 (10-19:00)
With its inception on April 26, 2014, the June 4th Museum in Hong Kong-China conceives of a glocal space initiated by the Hong Kong Alliance as a location for the collection, research, preservation, exhibition and education of materials revolving around the theme of Student Movement in China (1989). Being the first museum of activism in the world, it embraces a future vision with historical narrative. Geared towards a world mission of disseminating democracy-empowerment initiative, the Museum is unique of its kind in that its activist projects are dedicated to the interrogation of the “Democracy Movement” and “Rehabilitation of June 4” in Mainland China.
The edgy conception is to convert/ open up 100% of its enclosed, maze-like exhibition site to a grass-area of openness beneath the display structure for serious visitors from geography of heterogeneity, to perceive the closed system of politics and forge memory of the utopian discourse generated in the Tiananmen Square some twenty-five years ago in Mainland China.
The inventory of Museum houses the collection of +100 artifacts and +1,000 archival, microfilmed, video, digital and virtual-based materials. A well-selected proportion of the Museum’s donated collection is now for exhibition and bibliographic on-line access. Apart from its permanent display, the Museum presents thematic and contextualized exhibitions presented by independent curators or institutional partners to deal with many levels of historical, psychic and material reality on the theme of contemporary China.
TEL︳+(852) 2782-2111 (Museum Office); 9802-9440 (Founding Curator Andrew Lam)
WWW︳64museum.org/64m_eng.html#eng04
ADDRESS︳5/F, Foo Hoo Centre, 3 Austin AVENUE, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong-CHINA
