Hong Kong’s narrow streets were once a dazzling gallery of neon signs – now these are to be displayed in the M+ museum ...

From Hollywood blockbusters to Wong Kar-wai movies, neon signs have been an iconic representation of Hong Kong. First introduced in the 1920s, these signs flourished in the later half of the 20th ...

Hong Kong will continue to have a colored tint at night, but Greco says nothing can replace the unique colored glow of its dwindling neon signs. “It’s the special light they deliver,” he says.

But Hong Kong's neon signs are starting to vanish, which has prompted the city's future museum of visual culture, M+, to launch an online exhibition dedicated to the city's neon heritage.

The show at Hong Kong's Tai Kwun - a historic police compound-turned-cultural centre - was curated by Tetra Neon Exchange, a group focused on conserving the city's neon signs that are slowly being ...

Hong Kong’s narrow streets were once a dazzling gallery of neon signs – now these are to be displayed in the M+ museum ...