Examination of Estimates of Expenditure 2021-22 Reply Serial No. HAB166 CONTROLLING OFFICER’S REPLY (Question Serial No. 2340) Head: (95) Leisure and Cultural Services Department Subhead (No. & title): (-) Not Specified Programme: (3) Heritage and Museums Controlling Officer: Director of Leisure and Cultural Services (Vincent LIU) Director of Bureau: Secretary for Home Affairs Question: (a) Please provide in the table below information on the exhibitions which the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) intended to organise in 2020-21. Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Exhibits from Hong Estimated Attendance Title Period Venue Kong/the Mainland/ Expenditure overseas (b) How many cancellations and postponements by the LCSD in 2020-21 were due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic? Were additional expenditures or loss incurred as a result? If so, what are the details? (c) Please provide in the table below information on the exhibitions to be organised by the LCSD in 2021-22. Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Exhibits from Hong Estimated Attendance Title Period Venue Kong/the Mainland/ Expenditure overseas Asked by: Hon MA Fung-kwok (LegCo internal reference no.: 46) Reply: (a) Information on the exhibitions which the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) intended to organise in 2020-21 is at Annex I. (b) In 2020-21, a total of 29 exhibitions to be organised by the LCSD were cancelled or postponed due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. No additional expenditure or loss was incurred for the cancellation of exhibitions. There may be an increase in the estimated expenditure for transportation and insurance arising from the postponement of exhibitions but it can only be confirmed after details of the exhibitions are finalised. (c) Information on the exhibitions to be organised by the LCSD in 2021-22 is at Annex II. Annex I to Reply Serial No. HAB166 Exhibitions intended to be organised in 2020-21 by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department A. Hong Kong Museum of Art and branch museum Estimated Origin of Estimated (1) Expenditure(2) Tentative Title Original Period Venue Exhibits Attendance(3) ($’000) Gems of Zisha in The K.S. Lo April 2020 to Flagstaff House Local 200 140 000 Collection of the Flagstaff House June 2021 Museum of Museum of Tea Ware Tea Ware Lui Shou-kwan Centennial June to August 2020 Hong Kong Local 1,200 60 000 Retrospective Museum of Art A Taste for Life – The Collection of June to Hong Kong Local 400 80 000 Donor Mr Low Chuck-tiew November 2020 Museum of Art The Upright Art – Theme on the July to October 2020 Hong Kong Local 2,000 150 000 Virtue of Integrity in Chinese Museum of Art Painting and Calligraphy Wu Guanzhong – Sketching from July to October 2020 Hong Kong Local 100 150 000 Life Museum of Art “Hong Kong Art – Co-Creation” August 2020 to Hong Kong Local 2,080 100 000 Exhibition Series “Ways of February 2021 Museum of Art Seeing – New Horizons in the 80s and 90s Hong Kong Art” Exhibition Lingnan Seal Carving August 2020 to Flagstaff House Local 40 140 000 December 2022 Museum of Tea Ware 2020 Hong Kong – Macao Visual September to Beijing, Dunhuang, Local 3,730 96 000 Art Biennale(4) October 2020 Hangzhou Estimated Origin of Estimated (1) Expenditure(2) Tentative Title Original Period Venue Exhibits Attendance(3) ($’000) Botticelli – The Art of Painting in October 2020 to Hong Kong Overseas 20,588(5) 120 000 Renaissance Florence January 2021 Museum of Art Wu Guanzhong @ Ashmolean October 2020 to Ashmolean Local 3,000 80 000 February 2021 Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Honouring Tradition and Heritage – October 2020 to Hong Kong Local 2,760(5) 150 000 Min Chiu Society at Sixty April 2021 Museum of Art Paintings of the Lingnan Area October 2020 to Hong Kong Local 1,000 120 000 April 2021 Museum of Art Hong Kong Signature Series October 2020 to Hong Kong Local 1,600 150 000 Exhibition II – Hong Kong Words • May 2021 Museum of Art Hong Kong Voices A Tale of Three Cities – December 2020 to Guangdong Museum Local 2,402 60 000 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao April 2021 Greater Bay Area and Export of Silk Products in the Ming and Qing Dynasties Miracle of Nature – Selected January to Hong Kong Local 640 80 000 Landscape Paintings in Ming and June 2021 Museum of Art Qing Dynasties In Between February 2021 to Hong Kong Local 10,000 200 000 January 2022 Museum of Art Collection of the Museum February to Hong Kong Local 2,000 150 000 September 2021 Museum of Art Painting with The Pulse March 2021 to Hong Kong Local 1,500 200 000 April 2022 Museum of Art B. Hong Kong Museum of History and branch museums Estimated Origin of Estimated (1) Expenditure(2) Tentative Title Original Period Venue Exhibits Attendance(3) ($’000) Striving and Transforming – The May to Hong Kong Local 5,300 100 000 History of Hong Kong Industry August 2020 Museum of History City of Victoria – A Selection of August to Hong Kong Local 100 40 000 the Hong Kong Museum of October 2020 Museum of History History’s Historical Photographs Abridged Version of The Hong October 2020 to Hong Kong Local 3,800 700 000 Kong Story September 2022 Museum of History Stories of Tsinghua University in November 2020 to Dr Sun Yat-sen Mainland and 1,400 30 000 Republican China(4) March 2021 Museum local C. Hong Kong Heritage Museum and branch museums Estimated Origin of Estimated (1) Expenditure(2) Tentative Title Original Period Venue Exhibits Attendance(3) ($’000) Tsar of All Russia • Holiness and June to Hong Kong Overseas 12,700 110 000 Splendour of Power September 2020 Heritage Museum Between the Lines – The Legends September 2020 to Hong Kong Local 2,600 90 000 of Hong Kong Printing February 2021 Heritage Museum 20/20 Hong Kong Print Art September 2020 to Hong Kong Local 2,600 90 000 Exhibition February 2021 Heritage Museum Fund-raising Culture of Hong October 2020 to Hong Kong Local 2,700 100 000 Kong – Contributions of the Tung January 2021 Heritage Museum Wah Group of Hospitals Hong Kong Pop 60+ October 2020 Hong Kong Local 33,500 150 000 onwards Heritage Museum Estimated Origin of Estimated (1) Expenditure(2) Tentative Title Original Period Venue Exhibits Attendance(3) ($’000) Cantonese Opera Day Exhibition November 2020 Hong Kong Local 5 8 000 Cultural Centre D. Hong Kong Science Museum Estimated Origin of Estimated (1) Expenditure(2) Tentative Title Original Period Venue Exhibits Attendance(3) ($’000) Hong Kong Student Science June 2020 Hong Kong Local – N.A.(6) Project Competition 2020 Science Museum Winning Projects Exhibition(4) Robots – The 500-Year Quest to June 2020 to Hong Kong Overseas 10,200 250 000 Make Machines Human January 2021 Science Museum The 23rd Primary STEM Project July 2020 Hong Kong Local – N.A.(6) Exhibition Outstanding Projects Science Museum Exhibition The Shaw Prize 2020 September to Hong Kong Local 410 N.A.(6) November 2020 Science Museum Robots – I can make it!(4) September 2020 to Hong Kong Local 600 N.A.(6) March 2021 Science Museum The Shaw Prize 2020 October to Macao Local – 20 000 November 2020 Science Center E. Hong Kong Space Museum Estimated Origin of Estimated (1) Expenditure(2) Tentative Title Original Period Venue Exhibits Attendance(3) ($’000) Mars 2020 Rover July to Hong Kong In-house 150 N.A.(6) December 2020 Space Museum production The Shaw Prize in Astronomy September to Hong Kong In-house 100 N.A.(6) 2020 December 2020 Space Museum production 2021 Astronomical Events January to Hong Kong In-house 50 N.A.(6) March 2021 Space Museum production F. Hong Kong Film Archive Estimated Origin of Estimated (1) Expenditure(2) Tentative Title Original Period Venue Exhibits Attendance(3) ($’000) A Different Brilliance – The May to Hong Kong Local 650 15 000 D & B Story August 2020 Film Archive In Memory of Ma Si-tsang on His May to Hong Kong Local 50 5 000 120th Birth Anniversary August 2020 Film Archive The Stories Behind Film Stills August to Hong Kong Local 650 10 000 November 2020 Film Archive In Memory of Ma Si-tsang on His September to Sha Tin Local 10 15 000 120th Birth Anniversary(4) October 2020 Town Hall Hong Kong Film Poster November 2020 Mainland Local – 1 000 Exhibition(4) universities In Memory of Ma Si-tsang on His November to Island East Local – 17 000 120th Birth Anniversary December 2020 Sports Centre Out of the Past – From the Hong December 2020 to Hong Kong Local 650 15 000 Kong Film Archive Collection April 2021 Film Archive Estimated Origin of Estimated (1) Expenditure(2) Tentative Title Original Period Venue Exhibits Attendance(3) ($’000) In Memory of Ma Si-tsang on His January 2021 Tuen Mun Local – 3 000 120th Birth Anniversary(4) Town Hall G. Art Promotion Office Estimated Origin of Estimated (1) Expenditure(2) Tentative Title Original Period Venue Exhibits Attendance(3) ($’000) Revivify! April to Oil Street Art Space Local 650 50 000 (Over the Ocean, Over the September 2020 Mountain) Intervention! Social Architecture April to Oil Street Art Space Local 500 30 000 (Outside the Building I) September 2020 Engagement • Exploration April to Oil Street Art Space Local 255 5 000 (Family Stories) December 2020 Viva! River – Meet and Miss May 2020 Tuen Mun River and Local 600 3 000 along Tuen Mun River surrounding areas Residence and Exhibition May to Suomenlinna, Local and 1,400 35 000 Project@Suomenlinna August 2020 Finland overseas XCHANGE – Social Design June to Oil Street Art Space Local 1,000 20 000 Projects August 2020 If we have time June to Oil Street Art Space Local 640 30 000 October 2020 Traversing the Forbidden City November 2020 to School intranets and Local 3,294(8) 30