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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts
The Fireboat Alexander Grantham Exhibition Gallery in Quarry Bay Park displays the decommissioned fireboat, relics and literature on the history of fireboats and sea rescue. In 2018, the exhibition gallery held a Fun Day with the Fire Services Department and allowed members of the public to learn more about the history of the Alexander Grantham and sea rescue services in Hong Kong. Some 64,700 people visited during the year.
Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Hong Kong Heritage Museum in Sha Tin explores the city's diverse cultures through exhibitions on art, design and history. The highlight of the year was the 'Digital Dunhuang - Tales of Heaven and Earth' exhibition, a collaboration with the Dunhuang Academy that showcased achievements of the Dunhuang Academy's digitisation project over the past few years and the art and culture of Dunhuang caves through newly developed multimedia programmes. The museum also worked with RTHK to present the '90 Years of Public Service Broadcasting in Hong Kong'exhibition and cooperated with the Hong Kong Ceramics Research Society to present the 'Golden Splendours: 20th-century Painted Porcelains of Hong Kong'exhibition.
Other events included the 'Claylaboration - Contemporary Ceramic Art' exhibition and the 'Projects • Objects Play - Tommy Li PO.P. Design Show, which was part of a continuing designer exhibition series.
The museum conducts an Arts Buddies project jointly with the Education Bureau, Arts Development Council, HKBU and CUHK. It also runs a MuseKids programme to stimulate children's interest in museum learning, and the annual MuseTeens: Youth Leadership Scheme to enrich teenagers' understanding of the museum's work and collections.
Heritage Museum manages two branch museums, namely Railway Museum in Tai Po and Sheung Yiu Folk Museum in Sai Kung Country Park. The former is situated in the old Tai Po Market Railway Station with a station building constructed in 1913, while the latter is located in a Hakka village built in the late 19th century. Heritage Museum, Railway Museum and Sheung Yiu Folk Museum attracted 733,811,274,903 and 40,177 visitors respectively in 2018.
Hong Kong Science Museum
In 2018, Hong Kong Science Museum in Tsim Sha Tsui jointly presented with the Palace Museum the 'Treasures of Time' and 'Landscape Map of the Silk Road' exhibitions. 'Treasures of Time' merged science, history and art in a display of 120 clocks and watches from the Palace Museum's collection. Through these timepieces, visitors learned about the mechanisms of mechanical clocks from a scientific perspective and about their historical meaning and technological achievements. The 'Landscape Map of the Silk Road' showcased a 30m-long handscroll created for a Ming-dynasty emperor and introduced the tools and techniques used in ancient Chinese and modern cartography. Other major exhibitions included 'Above and Beyond, which presented interactive exhibits designed with new technology to give visitors an insight into the science of flight and the challenges of exploring outer space. 'Sophie - IVE's Solar Cars Driving the Future' was about Sophie, the solar car engineering project of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education. More than 1,276,000 visitors came during the year.
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