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On May 12 and 13, over 30 museums and heritage institutions from Beijing, Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong Province joined hands to present the 'International Museum Day 2007, Hong Kong'. As event coordinator, the museum staged a series of public displays at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, which were viewed by more than 28 000 people.
Five renowned scholars from the Mainland and Hong Kong spoke at an event entitled 'Distinguished Chinese Scientists Lecture Series 2007', organised jointly by the China Association for Science and Technology, Beijing-Hong Kong Academic Exchange Centre, the China Association (Hong Kong) for Science and Society and the museum. The topics included green chemistry, visual science, giant pandas, nuclear fusion and nanotechnology.
During the year, the museum worked with the British Council, academic institutions, professional bodies and government departments on a number of special programmes and projects which were carried out under titles such as 'Science Alive', 'Fun Science Competition', 'Primary Science Project', 'Hong Kong Student Science Project Competition', 'Robotic Olympiads', and 'Engineering a Green Future'.
Hong Kong Space Museum
The museum, using multi-media and special effects, produced two new sky shows about astronomy and space science which ran the whole year.
The Space Museum also staged a special exhibition, entitled 'Fly Me to the Moon', recounting the launching of China's first lunar satellite Chang'e 1.
More than 732 000 people visited the museum's exhibitions or attended its events in 2007.
Hong Kong Film Archive
The Hong Kong Film Archive's major functions are to acquire, preserve, catalogue and document Hong Kong films and related materials. The building houses a cinema, an exhibition hall, a resource centre and four temperature-controlled collection storerooms. It has already acquired more than 7 470 films and 844 000 items of related materials, mainly through donations and deposits. Major acquisitions in 2007 included over 700 titles of Hong Kong films and 3 000 related materials from overseas theatres and 224 Shaw Studio films donated by the Celestial Pictures Ltd. More than 159 000 people visited the archive in 2007.
Art Promotion Office
The LCSD's Art Promotion Office promotes local visual arts through a wide range of activities that focus on public and community art. The office deems it important to undertake projects with different organisations in order to get more people interested in the arts.
An exhibition called 'Public Art Scheme 1999-2006' was held in May to showcase the scheme's accomplishments since 1999. Five roving exhibitions held
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