Sam Tung Uk Museum Analysis

Sam Tung Uk Dwelling is a museum that is located in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. It is a Chinese building turned historical site. This paper will be describing the Sam Tung Uk Museum starting from the exterior to the interior of the building.
From the outside representation of the structure, the exterior of the historical site is elongated with two sides of the museum particularly taller than the main middle part of the building. The top of the building has flat roof tiles covered on top, with pointy elements at the tip of each end side of the roof. The wall of the structure from the exterior is painted white with no ornamentation features on it. Looking from a diagonal perspective, the structure is very geometry in terms of the exterior with mainly squares and triangles, but with very little rounded elements.
Before entering the building, there are a couple of stairs that elevated the structure to the outside of the building, which might be elements as a feature to welcome people into the area. At the entrance of the building, there are two big rounded pottery on each side of the front door, with red stickers covered on the opening on top. Other than these elements, at the top of the front door, there are two panels that have Lotus painted on it, one panel is stretched and long while the other one has a complex shape. There are more …show more content…
Both of the rooms consist of wood furniture that display all potteries and containers that should have once been used to stored food and supplements. There are also displays of the equipment that were used to crop agriculture with all methods. There are various sizes of the container that have been displayed in the main living area. There are hand-made weaving baskets, and the containers also have various sizes of opening, which should have been made for different kind of