Asian Civilizations Museum (Empress place building)

The Asian Civilisation Museum is a museum which specialises in the history of China, Southeast Asia, South Asia and the West Asia. It first opened at Armenian Street in the central business district area in 1997. Then opened in the Empress Place Building in 2003.

The original building was much more smaller than the present one, it was designed byJFA McNairin the mid 1860s. It was actually the office of the Colonial Secretary.The building was then re-named as the Empress Place Building in the honor of Queen Victoria. The museum was the place for the Citizen's Registry, Immigration Department and Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

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