Muse Fest HK 2023

Visit the Laboratory 100 years ago

The Museum building started life as the Bacteriological Institute, Hong Kong’s first purpose-built public health and clinical laboratory, which was built in response to the 1894 Plague outbreak and opened in 1906. In 1990, the Government declared the site a Monument, and it became known as the Old Pathological Institute. In 1996, the Monument was revitalized as The Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences.