434 Recreation, Sport and the Arts
Lord Wilson Heritage Trust
The Lord Wilson Heritage Trust aims to promote the preservation and conservation of Hong Kong's heritage.
During the year, apart from sponsoring $610,000 for four heritage-related activities and research projects, the trust granted $245,500 to the Conservancy Association for undertaking the project on 'Heritage Conservation We all gained'. The project aims to collect and put forward views and comments of the public on heritage conservation as well as to strengthen the public's knowledge on the same subject.
Museums
Hong Kong Museum of Art
The Hong Kong Museum of Art focuses on local and Chinese art collections, including Chinese paintings and calligraphy works, Chinese antiquities, historical pictures and contemporary Hong Kong art. To enhance the public's interest and knowledge in the arts of the world, the museum presented a variety of thematic exhibitions, covering ancient and modern works as well as Chinese and Western themes.
In 2004, the museum staged 14 exhibitions, comprising 10 special and four permanent exhibitions. Four special exhibitions were presented with renowned Chinese and overseas museums or artists, displaying significant works which reflected new directions in artistic creation.
A digital art exhibition jointly presented with the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong, combined real and virtual scenographies using new digital technologies. Another multi-media art exhibition was jointly organised with the Centre of Visual Culture of the China Academy of Art and the Shenzhen Fine Art Institute. It presented the results of an Asian cultural research study conducted by Chinese new media artists and researchers, which provided a new visual interpretation of cultures in Asia.
Other special exhibitions were also presented to celebrate the works of veteran Hong Kong masters. Two other exhibitions displayed the museum's precious collection of historical pictures, which depicted the scenery and life styles of the people in Hong Kong, Macao and other trading ports on the China coast over the past three centuries.
To enhance the public's knowledge of the museum's collection, permanent exhibitions are updated with new exhibits from time to time. The Chinese Antiquities Gallery presented a new exhibition while new Chinese paintings and calligraphy section displayed the works by Guangdong artists with four seasons as a special theme, featuring landscapes as well as flower-and-bird paintings on the unique Chinese format of sets of four hanging scrolls.
To stimulate the public's interest in art, the museum also organised a wide range of education and extension programmes, including video shows, art lectures, family
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