Nina Park

Nina Park, formerly known as Nina Fossil Garden, is an urban park in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong. The park is located at 8 Yeung Uk Road within Nina Plaza, above the Tsuen Wan (Nina Plaza) Bus Terminus. Covering more than 6,500 square metres (70, 000 sq ft), it houses the largest collection of petrified wood in Asia and is Hong Kong's only petrified wood park. Opened on 16 June 2013, the park originally covered approximately 7,400 square metres (80, 000 sq ft). It was redeveloped beginning in 2018, and the project received an Award of Merit in the Existing Buildings Category – Commercial Projects in Design at the 2019 Hong Kong Eco-Building Awards. The first phase of the redeveloped park opened to the public on 29 December 2023. The Nina Wang Collection comprises more than 100 petrified wood specimens collected by the late Nina Wang, former chairwoman of Chinachem. The specimens, many of which were sourced from Indonesia, date from periods ranging from the Jurassic to the Pliocene.The collection is displayed in a two-storey exhibition centre that features petrified wood specimens from around the world and includes exhibits on geology and the process of petrification.

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