Displaying the Past to Serve the Present: Museums and Heritage Preservation in Post-Colonial Hong Kong?

In little more than a decade, Hong Kong has gone museummad, erecting huge architectural outcrops like gigantic bank vaults to provide repositories of its history, its maritime fortifications, its art, its folk craft, its medical science, its astronomy, even its teaware. The motto seems to be "if it can be displayed for public view, build a museum around it."