Located next to the Hong Kong Science Museum in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Museum of History is a museum which preserves Hong Kong's historical and cultural heritage. Opened in 1998, the museum is constructed at a cost of 390 million HK dollars. The museum has a gross floor area of 18,000 square meters, with the permanent exhibition hall of 7,000 square meters. The collections of the museum encompass natural history, archaeology, ethnography and local history.