Hong Kong's Tiananmen Square museum moves online following June closure
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Hong Kong's June 4 Museum was the only museum in Greater China memorializing the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing in 1989. But it has moved online following its forced closure.
Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong's most controversial destination was forced to close just two days before a hugely significant date in the global pro-democracy calendar -- but the activist group behind the museum has announced they have digitized their entire collection and moved it online. Located inside a nondescript high-rise building wedged between a gas station and a highway overpass in Kowloon, the June 4 Museum was the only museum in Greater China -- which includes the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan -- that commemorates the Beijing government's crackdown against student protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989. On June 1, Hong Kong officials from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) visited the museum in the working-class area of Mong Kok and accused the organizers of operating a "place of public entertainment" illegally.More Related News
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