HONG KONG — A Hong Kong museum dedicated to the 1989 Tiananmen protests closed on Tuesday after organizers said that opposition from the building’s owners’ corporation had made it impossible to continue in that location.

More than 24,000 people had visited the 800-square-foot June 4th Museum in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong in the two years since it opened, the operators said in a statement announcing the closing. The museum included a replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue that student protesters erected in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and images and other documentation of the tumultuous events of 1989.

That year, huge demonstrations engulfed Beijing and other Chinese cities as students and workers pushed for more democratic governance and an end to corruption. The military crushed the protests on June 3-4, 1989, killing hundreds, possibly thousands, of people. The exact toll is still unknown.

In Hong Kong, which was then a British colony, large numbers of protesters turned out to support the Tiananmen demonstrators. In 1997, Hong Kong returned to Chinese control, but it maintains far greater freedoms of speech and assembly than mainland China. The city still holds annual gatherings to memorialize those killed in 1989, the sort of event that is prohibited in mainland China.