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The Hong Kong Heritage Museum also manages three branch museums. The first of these, 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 as a museum.

The Railway Museum in Tai Po comprises the old Tai Po Market Railway Station building, two historic locomotives and several coaches. The station building was constructed in 1913 in a Chinese style and was declared a monument in 1984.

The Sheung Yiu Folk Museum in Sai Kung Country Park is housed in a Hakka village, which was built in the late 19th century and comprises several 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.

The Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Sam Tung Uk Museum, Hong Kong Railway Museum and Sheung Yiu Folk Museum were visited by 422 008, 94 862, 205 326 and 52 908 people respectively in 2010.

Hong Kong Science Museum

The Hong Kong Science Museum joined forces with the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Co-ordination to hold an exhibition of an animated version of the Song Dynasty scroll, the 'River of Wisdom Animated Version of the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival', which was projected on a giant screen at the AsiaWorld-Expo at the Hong Kong International Airport in November 2010.

The scroll, portraying a riverside scene at the Qingming Festival 900 years ago, was created by the renowned artist, Zhang Zeduan of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The same digitised scroll was shown earlier at the Shanghai Expo and was hailed as a star exhibit.

A new exhibition, 'Jockey Club Environmental Conservation Gallery', opened in August 2010. Its exhibits demonstrate the importance of environmental conservation and encourage visitors to adopt sustainable lifestyles and to use natural resources wisely.

A four-month exhibition of the works and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci opened in October 2010. The exhibits included machine models constructed based on his codices and replicas of his most famous paintings, The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

The museum also collaborated with the Hongkong Post to hold a competition to design a stamp to honour Professor Charles Kao who was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking achievements in fibre optics. communication.

The museum's Science News Corner staged two thematic exhibitions: 'Transgenic Fish for Rapid Monitoring Estrogenic Pollution' and 'Life in the Universe'. These were organised jointly with the City University of Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong to introduce their research achievements. The exhibitions together with the permanent displays attracted more than 1 839 000 visitors.