Past Events and Activities
Past Events and Activties
2022
03-09-2022 Talk Series: "The Myths of Hong Kong's Typhoons"
06-08-2022 Talk Series: "Miracles Sometimes Cease: Shipbreaking in Hong Kong from War's End through Boomtime"
23-07-2022 Talk Series: "HONG KONG SHIPPING - The Soul of the City"
26-06-2022 Pacific Basin Free Family Fun Day
22-05-2022 Lighthouses: Paradise Beyond the City
08-05-2022 Lighthouses: Paradise Beyond the City
15-05-2022 "The Fall and Rebirth of the City: Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation" Talk Series:
From the Ashes: On Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City, Lust Caution and Others
10-04-2022 "The Fall and Rebirth of the City: Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation" Talk Series:
Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945：Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley
13-03-2022 "The Fall and Rebirth of the City: Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation" Talk Series:
Four Issues on the Military Government of Hong Kong during Japanese Occupation
Banknote Printers, Quarantine Ships, the Hong Kong Shrine and the Bacterial Research Institute of Hong Kong
13-02-2022 "The Fall and Rebirth of the City: Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation" Talk Series:
Leisure activities under the Japanese Occupation
09-01-2022 "The Fall and Rebirth of the City: Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation" Talk Series:
Free Fall: How Imperial Collapse in both 1942 and 1945 set Southeast Asia Adrift
2021
31-12-2021 Maritime History and Curating (Student Work Exhibition)
30-12-2021 Maritime History and Curating (Student Work Exhibition)
12-12-2021 Book Release and discussion panel “Seeing in the dark: Hong Kong Harbour and Lighthouses
28-11-2021 "The Fall and Rebirth of the City: Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation" Talk Series:
Image, Imagination and Imaginarium: Remapping World War II Monuments in Greater China
31-10-2021 Hong Kong Maritime Week 2021: Free Family Fun Day
02-10-2021 Storytime @HKMM X Choi EE
18-09-2021 Eco Tour: Ma Shi Chau Geology Trip
04-09-2021 Eco Tour: Looking for blue-blood living fossil
29-08-2021 Public Talk: Hong Kong Fisheries Now and Then – The Demise of Yellow Croaker
29-08-2021 Public Talk: Hong Kong Mudflat Ecology – Our blue-blood living fossil
28-08-2021 Talk: "Sailor-Made: Manifestations of Nautical Fashion in Hong Kong Culture"
28-08-2021 Larry Feign's The Flower Boat Girl Book Talk
08-08-2021 Ocean Network Express Family Fun Days
07-08-2021 Ocean Network Express Family Fun Days
31-07-2021 Saturdays with HKMM: Hong Kong Maritime Culture Salon: Trading Places: China’s Former Treaty Ports
27-06-2021 Pacific Basin Free Family Fun Day
16-05-2021 International Museum Day 2021 Free Admission Day
15-05-2021 International Museum Day 2021 Free Admission Day
15-05-2021 Seeing in the Dark: Hong Kong Harbour and Lighthouses
15-05-2021 Chat with the Curator
02-05-2021 Seeing in the Dark: Hong Kong Harbour and Lighthouses Academic Seminar
01-05-2021 Seeing in the Dark: Hong Kong Harbour and Lighthouses Academic Seminar
21-03-2021 Water and Life in the Eyes of Little Artists 2
2020
29-11-2020 Movie Show
28-11-2020 Movie Show
28-11-2020 Workshop: Ocean Papercutting
22-11-2020 Movie Show
22-11-2020 Mega Board Game‘All Aboard!”
21-11-2020 Family Workshop: Water and life in the eyes of little artists
15-11-2020 Mega Board Game‘All Aboard!’
14-11-2020 The power of paper - Public Talk: The life and conservation of paper
07-11-2020 Movie Show
07-11-2020 Mega Board Game‘All Aboard!’
31-10-2020 Public Talk: Development of Museum Services in Hong Kong
31-10-2020 Museum Fantasy Tour: Hunting for Treasures - Meeting the Unexpected Characters
24-10-2020 Special Tour: Maritime Silk Routes
17-10-2020 THE STEAM OF STEAM: A TECHNICIAN FIXING STUFF TODAY CREATES THE SCIENCE AND
COMPLEX TECHNOLOGY OF TOMORROW — PUBLIC TALK
10-10-2020 Special Tour: Maritime Silk Routes
26-09-2020 Free Children Admission on 26 September to Mark World Maritime Day 2020
18-07-2020 [Cancelled] Special Guided Tour to Permanent Gallery – Canton Trade and Opium War
25-06-2020 Day of the Seafarer 2020 HKMM Free Admission Day
07-06-2020 International Archives Week 2020: Special Guided Visits
17-05-2020 2020 International Museum Day Hong Kong - Museum Free Admission Days
16-05-2020 2020 International Museum Day Hong Kong - Museum Free Admission Days
15-03-2020 Special Tour: The World on Paper: From Square to Sphericity Exhibition (in Cantonese)
14-03-2020 Special Tour: The World on Paper: From Square to Sphericity Exhibition (in Cantonese)
07-03-2020 Special Tour: The World on Paper: From Square to Sphericity Exhibition (in Cantonese)
29-02-2020 Special Tour: The World on Paper: From Square to Sphericity Exhibition (in Cantonese)
22-02-2020 Special Tour: The World on Paper: From Square to Sphericity Exhibition (in Cantonese)
18-02-2020 Chinese and Foreign Antique Maps in the Eastern Sea and the Southern Sea Book Launch and Talk
15-02-2020 Guest Curator’s Tour (in Cantonese)
15-02-2020 Public Talk: From Maps in East Asia to Surveying Treatises in the West (in Cantonese)
08-02-2020 Special Tour: The World on Paper: From Square to Sphericity Exhibition (in Cantonese)
01-02-2020 [Cancelled] Special Tour: The World on Paper: From Square to Sphericity Exhibition (in Cantonese)
18-01-2020 Guest Curator’s Tour (in Cantonese)
18-01-2020 Public Talk: Development and Evolution of China Map (in Cantonese)
11-01-2020 Special Tour: The World on Paper: From Square to Sphericity Exhibition (in Cantonese)
2019
01-12-2019 Hongkong International Terminals 50th Anniversary Fun Day
01-12-2019 2019 Community Cultural Ambassador – Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble “Along the Silk Road”
Touring Concert: Music Theatre “All Roads Lead to Rome”
17-11-2019 Tugboat Visit
17-11-2019 HKMM for Hong Kong Maritime Week 2019
17-11-2019 (CANCELLED) Maritime Hong Kong: Then & Now
17-11-2019 Ocean Network Express (ONE) Family Fun Day
10-11-2019 OOCL's 50th Anniversary Free Family Fun Day
16-10-2019 Museum Learning Programme for Teacher Professionals Development
11-10-2019 Museum Learning Programme for Teacher Professional Development (in collaboration with Education
Bureau)： Museum and local history: Hong Kong and the historical development of Sino-foreign sea
trade (in Cantonese)
08-09-2019 Mega Board Game ‘All Aboard!’
25-08-2019 Sai Kung - Activating Local Records
18-08-2019 Along the Silk Road - Touring Concert: All Roads Lead to Rome
11-08-2019 Mega Board Game ‘All Aboard!’
10-08-2019 Night at the Museum – Pirate? Trader? or Mercenary?
28-07-2019 Mega Board Game ‘All Aboard!’
27-07-2019 Night at the Museum －’Fantastic Seamen and Where to Find Them’
14-07-2019 (Small Display) Life of Hong Kong Seamen
14-07-2019 Mega Board Game ‘All Aboard!’
13-07-2019 Public Talk: "The Pearl of the Orient" • "A Deep and Wide Harbour"? —Tracing Local Stories of the
Waterfront (in Cantonese)
30-06-2019 Asia’s Archipelago: Key to East-West Trade (in English)
23-06-2019 Lighthouse Memories: Green Island Lighthouse Documentary Screening (in Mandarin)
23-06-2019 Day of the Seafarer 2019 – Pacific Basin Family Fun Day
18-05-2019 International Museum Day 2019, Hong Kong
19-05-2019 International Museum Day 2019, Hong Kong
27-04-2019 HK SciFest 2019 - The Impact of Nuclear Radiation on Ocean Life and the Environment: A Critical
Scientific Perspective (in Cantonese)
13-04-2019 THE DRAGON AND THE EAGLE: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Early Sino-American Maritime Trade
07-04-2019 Fun afternoon for the dragon and the eagle exhibition
06-04-2019 Slow Art Day 2019
30-03-2019 Swallowing the anchor (sailor talk for retirement ashore, if in this case somewhat final)—A tour of the
Hong Kong Cemetery (in English)
30-03-2019 (CANCELLED) From the shore of a young republic to the edge of an ancient empire: Trekking in the
footsteps of early American traders in Hong Kong (in Cantonese)
24-03-2019 Art workshop: When pidgin English meets kwon-glazed porcelain (in Cantonese)
17-03-2019 Fun afternoon for the dragon and the eagle exhibition
16-03-2019 (CANCELLED) The rise and fall of Augustine Heard & Co.: The shift in Sino-US trade relations amid
socioeconomic and technological changes in the mid-19th century (Cantonese)
02-03-2019 Curator’s Tours
02-03-2019 Gold Mountain Dream, the California trade and the making of Hong Kong (in Cantonese）
23-02-2019 Hong Kong’s shifting longitude and the American role in tying it down (in English)
17-02-2019 Fun afternoon for the dragon and the eagle exhibition
17-02-2019 Art workshop: When pidgin English meets kwon-glazed porcelain (in Cantonese)
16-02-2019 Curator’s Tours
16-02-2019 The making of a special relationship: Houqua and his American business partners in the early nineteenth
century (in English)
26-01-2019 Curator’s Tours
26-01-2019 Shopping guide for Canton (the American version) (in Cantonese)
20-01-2019 Through american eyes: The journals of George Washington (Farley) Heard (1837-1875) (in English)