Hong Kong News-Expo

Asia’s first museum dedicated to the history and significance of the news media is located in an area clustered with antique shops, alfresco restaurants, and galleries. Yet this two-floor white building that looks almost like a cargo was originally built as a market. Opened in 1953, it was among the first batch of public markets built after World War II. The building sits partly on the former site of the American Congregational Mission Preaching Hall, where Sun Yat-sen was baptized in the 1880s.

In 2013, The Journalism Education Foundation Hong Kong Limited was granted the right to revitalize the property, with 10,000 square feet, into an education facility that houses old newspapers, a wooden paperweight bar found in bygone newspaper stands as well as historic journalism tools including the heavy recorders used for performing live feed from the 1950s to 1970s. Hong Kong News - Expo is a part of the list of most beautiful historical sites in Hong Kong.