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Recreation, Sport and the Arts
357,000 its education and extension activities, with another 172,000 attending related art activities. More than 1,024,000 people visited the museum in 2012.
The Hong Kong Museum of History also collaborated with Sino Art and Olympian City to stage the 'Transformation of the Qipao' exhibition at Olympian City from 27 April to 10 June 2012. This was the first attempt of the museum to bring its collections to display outside the museum.
The museum organised a range of programmes and events for different groups in the community, including for people with disabilities, new immigrants, teenagers, students and minority groups.
The Hong Kong Museum of History also manages five branch museums: the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum, the Fireboat Alexander Grantham Exhibition Gallery, the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum and the Law Uk Folk Museum.
The Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, converted from the old Lei Yue Mun Fort in Shau Kei Wan, attracted 120,000 visitors in 2012. In addition to its permanent exhibition, '600 Years of Hong Kong's Coastal Defence, the museum staged three exhibitions in 2012:'Paper Weapons: Wartime Japanese Propaganda Publications, 'Escape from Hong Kong: The Road to Waichow, and 'To the Last Man: Canadian Troops in the Battle of Hong Kong.
Some 69,000 people visited the Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum in 2012. Housed in historic Kom Tong Hall, it contains two permanent exhibitions relating to Dr Sun's life and career. Two additional exhibitions, 'Collection Highlights - Artefacts of Dr Sun Yat-sen's First Wife, Lu Muzhen' and 'Unsung Heroes - Dr Sun Yat-sen's Singapore Comrades' were held in 2012.
The Fireboat Alexander Grantham Exhibition Gallery in Quarry Bay Park displays the decommissioned fireboat and literature on the history of fireboats and sea rescue as well as relics. Some 64,000 people visited the gallery in 2012.
The other two branch museums, the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum in Sham Shui Po and the Law Uk Folk Museum in Chai Wan, attracted some 39,000 and 12,000 visitors in 2012 respectively.
Hong Kong Heritage Museum
The museum's 'PICASSO - Masterpieces from Musée National Picasso, Paris' exhibition in 2012 presented 56 paintings and sculptures by this 20th century artist from the national collection of France, attracting nearly 300,000 visitors.
Other exhibitions staged in 2012 included 'Hong Kong Photo Series 3: Beyond the Portrait, 'Post- Straight: Contemporary Hong Kong Photography, 'Creative Ecologies + 'The Heavenly Breeze: Selected Works of Gao Qifeng and His Disciples, 'Free and Unfettered: Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy by Au Ho-nien, 'Woo Lung Wong: Exhibition of Cartoonist Louie Yu Tin's Collection, and 'Genesis and Spirit: A Showcase of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Sichuan!
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