Sam Tung Uk Museum

Sam Tung Uk Museum
Sam Tung Uk Museum
Traditional Chinese	三棟屋博物館
Cantonese Yale	Sāam duhng ūk bok maht gún
Yale Romanization
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Sāam duhng ūk bok maht gún
Jyutping	Saam1 dung6 nguk1 bok3 mat6 gun2

Sam Tung Uk Museum
Sam Tung Uk Museum
Traditional Chinese	三棟屋博物館
Simplified Chinese	三栋屋博物馆
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Sān Dòng Wū Bówùguǎn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	saam1 dung6 uk1 bok3 mat6 gun2

Sam Tung Uk Museum
Established	1987; 37 years ago
Location	2 Kwu Uk Lane, Tsuen Wan; Hong Kong, China
Website	Sam Tung Uk Museum website
Declared Monument of Hong Kong
Official name	Sam Tung Uk Village
Designated	13 March 1981; 43 years ago
Reference no.	10

The Sam Tung Uk Museum is a museum restored from Sam Tung Uk (三棟屋; 'three-beam-dwelling', which describes the original floorplan),^[1] a Hakka walled village in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong.

History

It was built by a Chan (Chinese: 陳, pronounced "chin2 (or tshin2)" in the Hakka dialect) clan under the leadership of the clan patriarch, Chan Yam-shing, in 1786 during the Qing dynasty.^[2] The Chan clan was originally from Fujian; they had moved to Guangdong, and then to Hong Kong to engage in farming.^[1] The site has been carefully restored and opened to the public as a museum.

Sam Tung Uk was vacated in April 1980 and declared a historic monument in March 1981.^[2] The Hong Kong government funded its restoration and converted it into a museum between 1986 and 1987. The restoration work won the Pacific Heritage Award of the Pacific Asia Tourist Association in 1990.

Museum

The entrance, assembly and ancestral halls, and twelve of the original houses are preserved. Other rooms have been modified to accommodate a reception area, an orientation room, an exhibition hall, a museum office, and a lecture theatre. The agricultural implements and everyday objects of Hakka village life are on permanent display. The main exhibition hall at the far end of the building complex changes its displays approximately every six months. Documentation of the restoration process is on display in Orientation Room.

The Sam Tung Uk Museum is open from 09:00 to 17:00 every day of the year except Tuesdays, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, and the first three days of the Lunar New Year. Admission is free of charge. It can be accessed from the MTR Tsuen Wan station.