Unlimited Hong Kong History Museum 無盡的香港歷史博物館

The Hong Kong Museum of History was established in July 1975 when the City Museum and Art Gallery was split into the Hong Kong Museum of History and Hong Kong Museum of Art. But some of the Museum's collections date back to the City Museum and Art Gallery founded in 1962 at the City Hall. In 1983, the Museum was moved to the temporary accommodation in Kowloon Park. It was moved to its present premises on Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui in 1998.

The permanent home of the Hong Kong Museum of History, with a gross floor area of 17,500 m², is housed in a new building constructed at a cost of HK$390M and funded by the Hong Kong SAR Government. It is a comprehensive state-of-the-art museum designed by the P&T Architects and Engineers Ltd., based on the architectural concept of Mr E. Verner Johnson. The new Museum and the neighbouring Science Museum together form a museum complex of a harmonious appearance and colour scheme.

Apart from the main museum at Chatham Road South, the Hong Kong Museum of History runs five branch museums, namely the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence at Shau Kei Wan, the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum at Sham Shui Po , Law Uk Folk Museum at Chai Wan, Fireboat Alexander Grantham Exhibition Gallery inside the Quarry Bay Park and Dr. Sun Yat-sen Museum at Mid-levels in Central.

香港歷史博物館的前身是市政局於1962年在大會堂成立的「香港博物美術館」。1975年7月，「香港博物美術館」一分為二，分拆為「香港藝術館」和「香港博物館」。新成立的香港博物館初時租用尖沙咀星光行為館址，1983年遷往九龍公園臨時館址，1998年7月遷至尖沙咀漆咸道南現址。「香港博物館」由1998年4月1 日起，易名為「香港歷史博物館」。

香港歷史博物館新館，總樓面面積17,500平方米，由香港政府撥款港幣三億九千萬興建，是一座綜合性的現代化博物館大樓，建築物乃由本港巴馬丹拿建築及工程師有限公司(Palmer & Turner Architects and Engineers Ltd.)按照威拿.莊信先生(Mr. E. Verner Johnson)的建築概念設計而成；其外型、色調與毗鄰的科學館互相協調，形成一個博物館組合。

除了位於漆咸道南的主館外，香港歷史博物館還有五間分館，分別位於筲箕灣的香港海防博物館、深水的李鄭屋漢墓博物館、位於柴灣的羅屋民俗館、位於香港側魚涌公園內的葛量洪號滅火輪展覽館，以及位於中環半山的孫中山紀念館。