WANGDA SHOWCASES is awarded with museum showcase contract for Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence that is designed by Gallapher & Associates Asia, an internationally recognized Museum Planning and Design Firm with offices in Washington, D.C., New York, San Francisco, Portland and Singapore.
Totalled 56 high standard museum showcases for all the galleries will be customized by WANGDA SHOWCASES. All the showcases will be manufactured with anti-reflective glass with reflectivity less than 1% and light transmittance over 97%.The air exchange rate for all the showcases needs to be less than 0.1 per 24 hours and the showcases will be equiped with active micro-climate system to keep relative humidity ranging 30%-70% with precision ±3% and sensitivity ±1% within display space of museum showcases. The showcase opening and switching on/off and dimming of internal lighting system in showcases will be remotely controlled via wireless remote control terminal.
The Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence is a museum in Hong Kong, located in a former coastal defence fort overlooking the Lei Yue Mun channel, near Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island. The fort was built by the British in 1887, intended to defend the eastern approaches to Victoria Harbour.
The total area of the museum is 34,200 square metres. An exhibition entitled “600 years of Coastal Defence” is held permanently in the museum, which tells the story of the defence of the Hong Kong coastline from the time of the Ming Dynasty, through the First and Second Opium Wars and the Battle of Hong Kong, through to today.