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and 'Witness of Time: Photos of Central and Western District in the 1970s'. More than 606 800 people visited the museum during 2010.

The Hong Kong Museum of History also manages five branch museums: the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum, the Fireboat Alexander Grantham Exhibition Gallery, the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum and the Law Uk Folk Museum.

The Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence was converted from the old Lei Yue Mun Fort in Shau Kei Wan. In addition to its permanent exhibition, '600 Years of Hong Kong's Coastal Defence', the museum staged two thematic shows 'Escape from Hong Kong: The Road to Waichow' and 'British Army Aid Group Drawings'. Some 130 000 people visited the museum in 2010.

The Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum housed in historic Kom Tong Hall contains exhibits relating to Dr Sun's life and career. In addition to the two permanent exhibitions there, two thematic exhibitions, 'Kom Tong Hall the Artefacts' and 'Revolution Once More: Dr Sun Yat-sen from Xing Zhong Hui to the Governments in Guangzhou' were held in 2010. Some 88 900 people visited the museum during the

year.

The Fireboat Alexander Grantham Exhibition Gallery in Quarry Bay Park displays the decommissioned fireboat and literature on the history of fireboats and sea rescue as well as relics. Some 80 600 people visited the gallery in 2010.

The other two branch museums, the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum in Sham Shui Po and the Law Uk Folk Museum in Chai Wan, attracted some 33 000 and 13 000 visitors respectively.

Hong Kong Heritage Museum

Two large-scale exhibitions, 'City Flâneur: Social Documentary Photography' and 'Act Live - Hong Kong International Poster Triennial 2010' were held in 2010 to celebrate the museum's 10th anniversary. The former featured some 260 works by 35 groups of artists which epitomised the development of contemporary documentary photography in Hong Kong since the 1950s. The latter, jointly organised with the Hong Kong Designers Association, displayed 190 outstanding pieces and sets of posters from 23 countries and regions around the world. Seventeen works by the prominent Taiwan calligrapher, Ms Tong Yang-tze, were notable in the cultural and artistic exchanges between Hong Kong and Taiwan in 2010 as well as in the cross-over collaboration among artists from different media.

The South China Research Center of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, commissioned by the LCSD in 2009, continued the territory-wide survey of Hong Kong's intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in 2010. In addition, field trips, talks, demonstrations and displays were held to raise public appreciation of Hong Kong's ICH.

The museum ran a variety of programmes to help children, young people, ethnic minority groups and others in the community to know more about art and culture and to appreciate them.