The former Tak Seng On Pawnshop
The Heritage Exhibition of a Traditional Pawnshop Business will be open to the public from 1 January to showcase the history of Macau’s pawnshop business. The exhibition venue was formerly the Tak Seng On Pawnshop.
To preserve this part of Macau’s cultural heritage, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) undertook the restoration of Tak Seng On in 2000. In the process, the old architectural exterior design of the pawnshop, the internal decorations, as well as the instruments and procedures required for a pawnbroker’s business records, were reinstated in accordance with the basic layout of the early period of the Republic of China.
The venue is the first industrial museum jointly operated by the government and a private entity. It received an Honorable Mention in the UNESCO 2004 Asia-Pacific Awards for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. It was also selected as an Urban Best Practices Area by the Shanghai World Expo 2010.
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