Tag: Museum

Volunteers play key role at museum **********************************      The Hong Kong Palace Museum plans to recruit a new batch of about 200 volunteers in July to enable citizens with an interest in Chinese culture and museum work to assist with a wide range of duties including visitor services, educational activities and library management.        Since the museum opened a year ago, its volunteer programme has recruited around 500 volunteers.        News.gov.hk spoke to two of the programme’s participants to learn more about their work and the benefits of volunteering at the museum.        The story is available ... Read more

This initiative is sponsored by the Loewe Foundation and in collaboration with Granta Magazine WEBWIRE – Thursday, May 25, 2023 John Maxwell Coetzee, Nobel Prize for Literature (2003), has been selected as the first author to participate in the Writing the Prado program, a joint initiative with the Loewe Foundation that invites internationally renowned writers to engage literarily with the Museums collections. As inaugural Fellow, the South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee will spend three weeks residing in Madrid (from late June to mid-July), making the Museum his center of activity and also of contemplation. He will write a story ... Read more

Hong Kong Heritage Museum launches exhibition on Hong Kong film arts and costumes (with photos) ******************************************************************************************      Jointly presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) and the Hong Kong Film Arts Association, the “Out of Thin Air: Hong Kong Film Arts & Costumes Exhibition” will be staged from tomorrow (May 3) at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum (HKHM). The exhibition, one of the programmes of the Hong Kong Pop Culture Festival 2023, is the first comprehensive presentation of Hong Kong film arts and costume designs which aims to document the development of film arts in Hong Kong. Through the ... Read more

Hong Kong Space Museum screens new 3D dome show “Voyager: the Never-Ending Journey 3D” (with photos) ******************************************************************************************      The Hong Kong Space Museum is screening a new 3D dome show, “Voyager: the Never-Ending Journey 3D” at its Space Theatre starting from April 1. Audiences will be able to follow space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1977 to start an interstellar journey and find out the secrets of the farthest planets in the Solar System.             The twin space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are still navigating in the vast ... Read more

WEBWIRE – Saturday, December 31, 2022 On 5 January 2023, the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory, one of the State Hermitages display facilities, will be temporarily closed due to technical work at the Imperial Porcelain Factory joint-stock company. If you already hold tickets for 5 January 2023, then you can visit the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory using the same tickets on any other working day or return them for a refund. The display that the State Hermitage opened in 2003 on the premises of the functioning industrial enterprise was created on the basis of the stocks of ... Read more