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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts

The museum also cooperated with 91 scientific and government bodies to present HK SciFest 2018. During the Croucher Science Week, science communicators were invited from Australia, New Zealand and the UK to engage students and families in a series of science-related activities. Through the Young Scientists Study Tour, 20 secondary students and three teachers visited London Natural History Museum, London Science Museum and research institutes in the UK.

Hong Kong Space Museum

Hong Kong Space Museum in Tsim Sha Tsui organises regular astronomy activities on-site and holds stargazing and family programmes at its Astropark and iObservatory in Sai Kung. Its Stanley Ho Space Theatre is equipped with digital planetarium projection and sound systems and offers Omnimax, 3D Dome and Sky shows.

The permanent exhibition halls, namely, Hall of the Cosmos and Hall of Space Exploration, were reopened in April after renovations. There are about 100 exhibits, mostly with interactive designs.

Under a Young Astronaut Training Camp, 30 secondary students visited major aerospace facilities in Beijing and Jiuquan from 30 July to 6 August. The trip was jointly organised with the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, China Astronaut Research and Training Centre and Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre to broaden students' horizons.

In 2018, some 808,000 people visited the museum's exhibitions and attended shows in the Space Theatre, while more than 27,000 took part in the educational and extension programmes.

Hong Kong Film Archive

The Hong Kong Film Archive in Sai Wan Ho offers the permanent exhibition, 'In Memory of Queen's Theatre. It organised three exhibitions in 2018 - 'More Than a Piece of Paper: Rediscovering Hong Kong Movie Posters, 'Their Glory Days' and 'One Plus One Equals More than Two: Comedy Duos of Hong Kong Cinema' - as well as 186 screenings, seminars and post- screening talks. More than 156,120 visitors were recorded during the year.

The archive is duplicating the film scripts and censor documents of Hong Kong films from the late 1950s to early 1960s from the New York State Archives.

In 2018, it acquired 74 film titles and 5,474 film-related materials, including picture negatives, soundtracks, subtitles, inter-negatives, inter-positives, film prints, magnetic sound films, trailers. and digital cinema packages. Major acquisitions included 35mm film prints of 21 titles dating. from 1994 to 2001 and donated by Fortune Star Media, and 12 titles dating from 1994 to 2008 and donated by Block 2 Pictures. Golden Scene donated 1,187 film-related materials such as posters, stills and newspaper clippings, while First Distributors (HK) donated around 500 audio- visual materials, mostly betacam tapes.

Public Libraries

The LCSD operates 70 static and 12 mobile libraries and a books registration office. The libraries hold 13.14 million books and more than 1.85 million multimedia items, serving almost 4.6

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