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Museum will present in July and August, two public lecture demonstrations on 'Textile Conservation' and 'Fabric Art'. Three workshops on 'Advanced Pottery Creation Chinese Traditional Motif', 'Weaving with Chinese Pattern-Introduction to Chinese Textile' and 'Elementary Textile Creation' and six 'Parent and Child Fun Days-Making of the Dragon Robe' will be held during the summer vacation. Members of the public are most welcome to participate in these activities.
Besides pre-booked group visits, the Museum also provides free guided tours for all interested on Saturdays at 3.45 p.m. and Sundays at 2.45 p.m. The tours are conducted by trained docents and last about one hour each. Special free visits are also arranged for disabled groups during museum closing days on Thursdays.
With regard to the second part of the question, taking into account public aspirations for additional information in the gallery, the Museum of Art already provides more detailed annotations for exhibits. It has also arranged for more copies of the exhibition catalogue to be available for browsing by visitors at the gallery entrance. In this connection, visitors who are interested in studying the catalogue in detail may borrow it from the Council's public libraries. Meanwhile, the Museum will monitor public response closely and arrange to repeat some of the more popular educational and extension programmes as appropriate during the summer holidays.
MR. WU CHI-WAI (in Cantonese):—In paragraph 4 of the answer, it says that '...... for security reasons and in line with general museum practice, Class I state treasures are not identified .......' I would like to ask whether there is any direct bearing on the security if the items classified as state treasures are not identified?
MR. MOK YING-FAN (in Cantonese):-There are a number of Class I state treasures included in the 22 exhibits on loan from the Liaoning Provincial Museum of China. The classification is an internal system used in China to assess the relative uniqueness of artefacts. The 'Chinese Textile' exhibition includes valuable exhibits from many collections all over the world and there are reasons to believe that a number of these exhibits possess comparable rarity. Apart from security considerations, to identify state treasures from China just because the information is readily available would provide a misleading picture on the comparative merits of other exhibits in the show. So we decided not to identify Class I state treasures.
Mr. Wu Chi-WAI (in Cantonese):—It says that Class I state treasures are not identified. Does it mean that there are still introductions despite the fact that they are not identified?
MR. MOK YING-FAN (in Cantonese):-Yes, there are some annotations introducing the value and the significance of the items. There is simply no mention of such items being state treasures. If you have paid a visit to
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Museum will present in July and August, two public lecture demonstrations on 'Textile Conservation' and 'Fabric Art'. Three workshops on 'Advanced Pottery Creation Chinese Traditional Motif', 'Weaving with Chinese Pattern-Introduction to Chinese Textile' and 'Elementary Textile Creation' and six 'Parent and Child Fun Days-Making of the Dragon Robe' will be held during the summer vacation. Members of the public are most welcome to participate in these activities.
Besides pre-booked group visits, the Museum also provides free guided tours for all interested on Saturdays at 3.45 p.m. and Sundays at 2.45 p.m. The tours are conducted by trained docents and last about one hour each. Special free visits are also arranged for disabled groups during museum closing days on Thursdays.
With regard to the second part of the question, taking into account public aspirations for additional information in the gallery, the Museum of Art already provides more detailed annotations for exhibits. It has also arranged for more copies of the exhibition catalogue to be available for browsing by visitors at the gallery entrance. In this connection, visitors who are interested in studying the catalogue in detail may borrow it from the Council's public libraries. Meanwhile, the Museum will monitor public response closely and arrange to repeat some of the more popular educational and extension programmes as appropriate during the summer holidays.
MR. WU CHI-WAI (in Cantonese):—In paragraph 4 of the answer, it says that *...... for security reasons and in line with general museum practice, Class I state treasures are not identified .......' I would like to ask whether there is any direct bearing on the security if the items classified as state treasures are not identified?
MR. MOK YING-FAN (in Cantonese):-There are a number of Class I state treasures included in the 22 exhibits on loan from the Liaoning Provincial Museum of China. The classification is an internal system used in China to assess the relative uniqueness of artefacts. The 'Chinese Textile' exhibition includes valuable exhibits from many collections all over the world and there are reasons to believe that a number of these exhibits possess comparable rarity. Apart from security considerations, to identify state treasures from China just because the information is readily available would provide a misleading picture on the comparative merits of other exhibits in the show. So we decided not to identify Class I state treasures.
Mr. Wu Chi-WAI (in Cantonese):—It says that Class I state treasures are not identified. Does it mean that there are still introductions despite the fact that they are not identified?
MR. MOK YING-FAN (in Cantonese):-Yes, there are some annotations introducing the value and the significance of the items. There is simply no mention of such items being state treasures. If you have paid a visit to
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