Museum of History to discuss proposed Sun Yat-sen museum
Updated at 6.04pm: The Hong Kong Museum of History will hold a forum on Friday to gauge views on the proposed Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum, a government spokesman said on Thursday.
He said they would discuss the name, exhibition contents, facilities and services of the new museum.
The spokesman said the Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum would be housed at Kom Tong Hall - a historic building at 7 Castle Road in Central. It was expected to open in early 2007.
Renovation work was due to start in September and scheduled for completion in December 2006, the spokesman said.
He said the museum would feature Sun Yat-sen's life and career, as well as his time in Hong Kong.
The forum will run from 6.30pm to 8pm on Friday at the Lecture Hall of the Museum of History in Tsim Sha Tsui.
Sun Yat-sen was considered by many as the 'National Father of Modern China'. He was instrumental in creating the Chinese republic and ending centuries of rule by emperors.
A founder of the Kuomintang, Sun was the first provisional president of the Republic of China in 1912.
He came to Hong Kong from Guangdong province in 1883. He studied in the city and later obtained a medical doctor's licence from the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (the forerunner of The University of Hong Kong).
In 1894, Sun began his political career by organising reform groups of Chinese exiles in Hong Kong.
