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treated to an exhibition about Cantonese music. The event, called 'Riding a Melodic Tide - The Development of Cantopop in Hong Kong' traced the development of Cantonese popular music over the past few decades and its influence on today's music. They attracted more than 470 000 visitors to the museum during the year.
Special cultural events were also held for the young and old and for ordinary folk from different walks of life.
The Hong Kong Heritage Museum manages three branch museums the Sam Tung Uk Museum, Hong Kong Railway Museum and Sheung Yiu Folk Museum. The Sam Tung Uk Museum in Tsuen Wan was originally a Hakka walled village built in 1786. It was declared a monument in 1981 and later converted into a museum. The Railway Museum in Tai Po consists of the old Tai Po Market Railway Station building, two historic locomotives and various coaches. The station building was built in 1913 in a Chinese style and was declared a monument in 1984. The Sheung Yiu Folk Museum in the Sai Kung Country Park is located in a Hakka village, built in the late 19th century, which comprises eight domestic units, pig pens, an open courtyard and an entrance gate-tower. The village and a nearby lime kiln were gazetted as monuments in 1981.
A total of 490 000 people visited the Sam Tung Uk Museum, Hong Kong Railway Museum and Sheung Yiu Folk Museum in 2007.
Hong Kong Science Museum
The Hong Kong Science Museum organised an exhibition entitled 'Soaring Dinosaurs - Chinese Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life', as part of the celebrations held to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the HKSAR. The exhibition featured about 200 exotic fossils of dinosaurs and other ancient animals as well as plants unearthed in China. The fossils offered clues to the evolution of dinosaurs and the origin of mammals, birds and flowering plants. Over 284 000 people visited the exhibition.
Other major special exhibitions held during the year included 'Mission Earthling', an exhibition of various body systems of man seen through the eyes of visiting aliens and 'Hybrid Drive Vehicle Technology' which drew attention to environmental issues such as air pollution and global warming, and the latest technology developed to make vehicles more environmentally friendly.
The museum staged several new exhibitions during the year. 'Smart Ambience Therapy', a new event sponsored by the City University of Hong Kong, is a pioneering application of interactive media and virtual reality technology in art therapy. 'The World of Mirrors', set up as a permanent gallery, opened in September with exhibits illustrating the interesting reflective properties of mirrors. New exhibits acquired in 2007 also included 25 neurosurgical instruments donated by the Tuen Mun Hospital.
The museum's Science News Corner staged two thematic
thematic exhibitions: 'Discoveries on Reproduction, Development and Growth: From Gamete to Adult' and 'Cochlear Implants - Offering a Hearing World for the Hearing-impaired'. The display was organised jointly with The University of Hong Kong and The Chinese
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