The Health Education Exhibition and Resource Centre is housed in a Grade I historic building (Block S4 of the former Whitfield Barracks) in Kowloon Park.[1] In September 1993, the former Urban Council endorsed a proposal to use the building to house an Urban Council Health Education Exhibition and Resource Centre.
Floor plan
The centre comprises an exhibition area on two floors and an outdoor health education garden.
The exhibition on the ground floor introduce the general information of Food and Environmental Hygiene Department and then focuses on various aspects of food and environmental hygiene – high-risk foods, GM foods and food additives. The topics are thoroughly explained through computer games, videos and photos, etc.
The ground floor lecture room holds regular seminars.
There is also a souvenir counter on the ground floor.
The first floor hosts temporary exhibitions in the centre of the hall and permanent exhibitions on environmental hygiene, kitchen hygiene, public toilets and pest control.
An additional resources center is located on the second floor.
Exhibition Content
A permanent exhibition on the theme of "Food Safety, Environmental Hygiene and You" is staged at the centre.
Activities
The centre organises extra-curricular programmes such as school and group visits, a volunteer scheme and a health troop membership scheme.
