In time for the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the first permanent memorial museum was opened in New York on June 2. The new museum will become the only exhibition site in the world presenting the history of the 1989 massacre after the forced closure of the June 4th Memorial Museum in Hong Kong for political reasons.
The exhibition hall houses pictures, videos, and some real objects to display and review of the massacre and the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement, presenting the history of Hong Kong people’s pursuit of democracy and freedom.
Anna Yeung-Cheung, the founder of NY4HK (a New York-Hong Kong Concern Group), introduced that the exhibition is divided into three themed exhibition zones: the Hong Kong Victoria Park candlelight vigil between 1990-2020 in memory of the June 4th victims, the 2014 Umbrella Movement, and the major events during the 2019 anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong….