The Hong Kong Museum of Art opened in 1989 as part of the city's superb new Cultural Center. It is arranged over five floors and divided into six separate galleries, the majority of which are devoted to Chinese art and artifacts from the past. Among the art galleries the undoubted highlight is the third floor's Historical Pictures Collection, home to more than a thousand paintings, drawings and prints devoted almost entirely to topographical scenes of Hong Kong and its immediate surroundings. Among them is the first known painting of Hong Kong, an Aberdeen waterfall scene executed by William Havell in 1816.