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Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum (香港懲教博物館) is located at 45, Tung Tau Wan Road, Stanley,Hong Kong. It was housed in the Staff Training Institute of Hong Kong Correctional Services Department; later, it was moved to a two-storey building next to the Staff Training Institute. There is a mock guard tower on the top of the new museum building. Stanley is an old masculine name from the 11th and 12th century English contraction of Stoney Meadow. It is also the name of a number of places, and has other miscellaneous uses. ...
It is under the management of Hong Kong Correctional Services Department.
HongKongCorrectionalServicesMuseum (香港懲教博物館) is located at 45, Tung Tau Wan Road, Stanley,Hong Kong.
It was housed in the Staff Training Institute of HongKongCorrectionalServices Department; later, it was moved to a two-storey building next to the Staff Training Institute.
It is under the management of HongKongCorrectionalServices Department.
After the annexation of HongKong in 1842, the British made Stanley the administrative centre for a while, before moving to the newly founded Victoria City north of HongKong Island.
Stanley was the location where the British garrison in HongKong was defeated by the advancing Japanese troops in December 1941.
Tin Hau Temple (Temple of the Queen of Heaven), built in 1767, is one of the oldest temples in HongKong.
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