June 4 museum goes online

An online June 4 museum which opens today tells the tale of those who died in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown with timelines, pictures and infographics. 
The “8964 Museum” launched today at https://8964museum.com/ after authorities banned the physical premise of the museum ran by the Hong Kong Alliance In Support of Patriotic Movements of China, saying it was running without a license. 
The alliance stated that fundraising for the online museum had begun on June 4, 2000. The purpose of the museum is to preserve the history and memories of the incident, and to connect mainland's democratic movement in 1989 with the history of social movements in Hong Kong. 
It received over HK$1.6 million in donation from more than 1,100 donors between June and August last year, all of which have been invested into the building and operations of the online museum.
The museum stated the death toll of the crackdown, which ranges between three and 10,000 according to different sources. Apart from numbers, it displayed photos and background of the students and civilians who were killed. 
A timeline of key events of the 1989 democratic movement on the mainland and infographics detailing the army units involved in the military crackdown on June 4 are also available. 
The museum also introduced movies, novels and music inspired by the incident, and also featured newspaper articles about the anniversaries of the crackdown.
There is also a section introducing Hong Kong's commemoration of June 4, such as the annual vigil in Victoria Park and a brief history of the city's democratic movement, spanning from protests against Article 23 in 2003, Occupy Central in 2014 to the anti-extradition bill movement in 2019.
The alliance shut down the physical June 4 museum on June 2, a day after the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department warned it was operating without a license. The alliance pleaded guilty in court and was fined HK$8,000 on June 27.
It would only reopen when a viable solution and venue could be found, the alliance said. 
For the online museum, it is run by a curating team separated from the alliance.
Chang Ping, a mainland journalist who witnessed June 4, was invited to be its curator to form a global team. 
The content of the 8964 museum would be updated to include more historical sources. The content would also be translated into foreign languages in the future, and special exhibitions would be organized on special dates.