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2005. 'Pottery and Porcelain: A Journey of Discovery' featured refined ceramics. dating from the Ming dynasty to the 20th century and 'Tea Ware by Hong Kong Potters 2005', a display of work by 70 local potters selected from the 2004 competition.
The museum also organised a variety of educational activities, such as demonstrations on pottery making and Chinese tea drinking. During the year, it attracted more than 192 000 visitors.
Hong Kong Museum of History
The year 2005 marked the 30th anniversary of the Hong Kong Museum of History. A series of activities was arranged to celebrate the event, including the Interactive Theatre that showed the social changes of Hong Kong from the late 1950s to the reunification of Hong Kong with China in 1997, and the Open Day held on August 27. More than 8 000 people participated in these two programmes.
Throughout the year, the museum continued to present a wide range of exhibitions from 'Dr Sun Yat-sen and Nanyang' jointly organised with the Sun Yat-sen Nanyang Memorial Hall from Singapore to 'The Paris Reflections: Photographs from the Centre Pompidou' jointly organised with the Centre Prompidou to 'Impressions of the East: The Art of George Chinnery'.
'The History of Ta Teh Institute' jointly organised with the Museum of the Peasant Movement Institute in Guangzhou traced the history of this art college established by the Chinese Communist Party in the 1940s and 'East Meets West: Cultural Relics from the Pearl River Delta Region' revealed the extent of commercial and cultural contact between China and the West in different dynasties by displaying cultural relics from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. The museum received a total of 562 700 visitors during the year.
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The museum also organised regular lectures and workshops. Two series of lectures in particular 'The Growth of Hong Kong' and 'The 60th Anniversary of the Victory of the War of Resistance against Japan' - jointly presented with the Modern Chinese History Society of Hong Kong received an overwhelming response from the public and schools.
The Hong Kong Museum of History also manages three branch museums. the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence in Shau Kei Wan, the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum in Sham Shui Po and the Law Uk Folk Museum in Chai Wan. The Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum completed its improvement works by the end of the year. They attracted 177 500, 30 300 and 23 500 visitors respectively.
Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence
Converted from the old Lei Yue Mun Fort in Shau Kei Wan, the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence occupies about 34 000 square metres and its standing exhibition, '600 Years of Hong Kong's Coastal Defence in Hong Kong' depicts Hong Kong's history of coastal defence from the Ming and Qing dynasties, the British period, Japanese invasion to the period after Hong Kong's reversion to Chinese sovereignty. Thematic exhibition galleries stage displays on topics related to the