Bryan Ong, founder of the Museum Victoria City, poses next to the burnt Union Jack saved by a British soldier during the Battles of Hong Kong in World War II, at the museum gallery in Hong Kong. Photo: Reuters
Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong's British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is firmly back in the fold of the mainland.
Ong, 42, has been collecting colonial memorabilia since he was a child and last year opened The Museum Victoria City to put his treasures on display, detached from growing acrimony between China and Britain, fuelled in part by the colonial legacy.
