| International Museum Day 2009 was a fun-packed day allowing the public to participate in an array of entertaining educational and extension activities at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Piazza. |
Cultural Services
Hong Kong has one of the liveliest cultural scenes in Asia, and is a regional centre for the arts that thrives on a fusion of creative talent from East and West. The Cultural Services Branch of the Department plans and manages performance venues, and organises cultural and entertainment programmes to promote culture and the arts in Hong Kong. It also provides public library services to meet the community's need for knowledge, information, informal education, and the profitable use of leisure time and to promote the literary arts. Another important part of the Branch's work is helping to preserve Hong Kong's cultural heritage and promoting awareness of that heritage through the provision and development of museums and related services.
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Through these services, the Branch aims to create an environment that encourages artistic expression and advances a deeper appreciation of culture in the community, thus helping to nurture a more open and mature society that embraces culture and the arts as a part of everyday life.
Hong Kong has excellent facilities for the presentation of a broad array of cultural activities, including 13 performance venues, seven major museums, seven smaller museums, two heritage centres, a film archive, a visual arts centre, two indoor stadia, and a network of 66 static and 10 mobile libraries.
