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Recreation, Sport and the Arts

The museum offered a variety of education and extension programmes to tie in with the exhibitions and workshops and seminars were held in collaboration with the Education Bureau in support of Life-wide Learning and the New Senior Secondary Curriculum.

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 attracted some 693,300, 98,900, 196,700 and 35,300 visitors respectively in 2012.

Hong Kong Science Museum

Over 1,287,800 visited the Science Museum in 2012. Its exhibitions included 'China's First Manned Space Docking Mission, displaying the Shenzhou-9 re-entry module and attracting 64,000 visitors during the two-week display period, 'Creatures of the Abyss, 'Brain and Cognition' and 'I Love Lyuba: Baby Mammoth of the Ice Age:

The museum continued to showcase the latest local scientific researches, with exhibitions on 'Technologies Enhancing Patient Care, 'Computer Transformation - Transform Smartphone or Notebook into Robots' and 'Painless Vaccination, and the Distinguished Chinese Scientists Lecture Series continued in 2012.

Events co-organised by the museum in 2012 included the Hong Kong Student Science Project Competition, which attracted 712 students in 172 teams from 72 secondary schools, the Fun Science Competition, with 424 students from 212 school teams participating, and 'Science Alive' celebrating the human body's potential in the Olympic Games and marking the centenary of the birth of the 'father of computer science, Alan Turing.

Hong Kong Space Museum

In 2012, the Hong Kong Space Museum presented three Sky Shows, five OMNIMAX Shows and two School Shows at its Stanley Ho Space Theatre. Stargazing and family programmes were held regularly in its stargazing facilities of the Astropark and iObservatory in Sai Kung.

With sponsorship by the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, the museum provided 30 local secondary students with a seven-day astronaut training and study tour at the China Astronaut Research and Training Center and Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The museum also presented an exhibition 'Shenzhou 9: China's First Manned Docking Mission' to commemorate

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