Friday, October 29, 2010

Hong Kong science and medical science museums

Yesterday we went to the Medical Sciences Museum on Hong Kong island. The place is in quite a nice old two storey building with a basement. They had displays for traditional medicine, pregnancy, neuro surgery, the plague, medical instruments, dentistry, small pox, cancer radiation treatment, an autopsy room and several more I can't remember. A few of the displays full life mock UPS of people. The plague one had two students cutting open rats to check for evidence of the plague, the small pox one had two men preparing a cow with cow pox for collection to make small pox vaccine.



The science museum in Kowloon was quite good also. Although wasn't so much fun battling the crowd. We went on Wednesday because its free entry day so paid the price. They have a DC3 which is the first plane bought and used by Cathay Pacific, it was still flying in Australia when rediscovered in the 80's and brought to the museum.
They also have many hands on exhibits and puzzels as well as demonstrations. We watched the liquid nitrogen demonstration and although the presenter only spoke in Chinese it was still very entertaining.


After the museum we went to pick up our visas for China. Along the way was a small "shop" that had these guys at the front door.

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