Presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and organised by the Antiquities and Monuments Office, the "Reminiscences: Life in Hong Kong's Built Heritage" exhibition will be held at the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre from tomorrow (January 20) until May 1. The exhibition will enable members of the public to get to know the historic buildings in Hong Kong and to understand the experiences of built heritage conservation.
      
     The officiating guests at the launch ceremony today (January 19) were the Acting Secretary for Development, Mr Eric Ma; the Chairman of the Antiquities Advisory Board, Mr Andrew Lam; the Director of Leisure and Cultural Services, Ms Michelle Li; the Commissioner for Heritage, Mr José Yam; and the Executive Secretary of the Antiquities and Monuments Office, Ms Susanna Siu.
      
     The exhibition is one of the events celebrating the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It is presented through a story of two imaginary characters who were born in the 1920s and shows related valuable historic building components, documents, artefacts and photographs, allowing members of the public to understand the rich built heritage in Hong Kong and the earlier social landscape that these historic buildings reflect. Highlight exhibits include the first-generation Bishop's Throne of St John's Cathedral, the wooden signboard of the Chun Yuen Pawn House in Yuen Long Old Market (the oldest surviving pawn shop in Hong Kong), the door lock and key of Victoria Prison in Central and the cast iron halberd of Cheung Chun Yuen in Kam Tin.
      
     The gallery also includes various creative interactive exhibits as well as images and models created using advanced 3D stereoscopic scanning and printing technology. Through these displays, visitors will be able to understand the changes of heritage conservation technology and the experiences in conserving built heritage.
      
     The Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre is located at Kowloon Park, Haiphong Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. For details of the exhibition, please visit the Antiquities and Monuments Office's website at www.amo.gov.hk, or call 2208 4400.

Ends/Thursday, January 19, 2017
Issued at HKT 16:45

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