To find the world's only museum chronicling the brutal crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen protests, look for the skinny office building wedged between a Tibetan-themed pub and a sports bar on a side street on the edge of a Hong Kong tourist district.
A steady stream of visitors, many from mainland China, has been trickling in since it was opened in April. The interest shows that even though authorities have deleted the events from China's official record, their memory flickers 25 years on in Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong, which retains Western-style civil liberties unseen on the mainland, the memory of the Tiananmen protests are just one of many reminders of how the city's differences with China continue to widen 17 years after it ceased to be a British colony.
Lee said the museum aims to challenge the Communist Party to overturn its official verdict that the mostly student-led protests were a "counterrevolutionary riot".
His group, the Hong Kong Alliance In Support of Democratic Patriotic Movements in China, bought the space for nearly 10 million Hong Kong dollars ($1.3 million).
The museum's collection of 100 artifacts, 16,000 photos, 33 rolls of microfilm and hundreds of books and magazines will be rotated regularly.
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