Hong Kong Museum of History

From July 29 to October 26, the museum staged a major exhibition
entitled History through Maps: An Exhibition of Old Maps of China, the
largest show of its kind ever held in Hong Kong. It was jointly presented
with the National Library of China and supplemented with loan exhibits
from local collectors. In all, 68 784 people visited the exhibition.

The permanent exhibition entitled The Story of Hong Kong, which outlines
6 000 years of development of Hong Kong from the New Stone Age to
modern times, attracted 270 000 visitors.

The museum organised a wide variety of educational activities such as
video shows, lectures, workshops, field visits to local historic and nature
sites, as well as orientation programme for students of the Hong Kong
Institutes of Education, all of which attracted a very high attendance. The
museum's loan services such as travelling exhibitions, videos and slide
packs were frequently used by schools and non-profit making
organisations. The museum continued to organise jointly with the
Education Department the sixth Inter-school Competition of Study
Projects on Transportation in Hong Kong.

The Lei Cheng Uk Branch Museum, with its thematic display, Han
Costume, received 57 000 visitors during the year. The Law Uk Folk
Museum attracted 38 000 visitors with its permanent display of rural
furniture and farming implements, as well as the thematic exhibition,
Paper Horse.

Construction of the permanent Museum of History at Chatham Road
South and the Lei Yue Mun Museum in Chai Wan progressed well. The
two museums are expected to open for public viewing in 1999.

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