Museum carnival launches next month

Macau Museum

To coincide with this year’s International Museum Day, 18 Macau museums are co-organizing the “2016 Macau International Museum Day Carnival,” which will launch its opening ceremony on May 8 at the Calçada da Igreja de S. Lázaro, with related activities continuing until May 29.
The theme this year is “Mobile Museum: The blending of Chinese and Western cultures in Macao,” and the event will seek to present the unique landscapes resulting from the collaboration of these two cultural groups in the MSAR. The areas of fusion, including religion, architecture, art, music, stamps, food and lifestyles, will be explored during the carnival through thematic exhibitions, workshops, lectures, guided tours and a street carnival.
On the inauguration day there will be a variety of dynamic activities such as workshops on clay modeling, tea set design, street sign painting, caricature drawing, seal engraving, herb gardening and the creation of magnetic tiles.
This year’s International Museum Day is being jointly organized by 18 Macau museums. Among them are the Grand Prix Museum, the Museum of the Holy House of Mercy, the Fire Services Museum, the Maritime Museum, the Museum of Taipa and Coloane History, the Handover Gifts Museum of Macao, the Macao Science Center and the Macau Museum of Art.
Throughout May the museums collaborating in the event will organize an array of celebrations, exhibitions, workshops, lectures and free admission days. For more information, interested parties can visit the Macao Museum’s webpage (www.museums.gov.mo).
The general public is welcome to join the opening ceremony at 3 p.m. on May 8, which will also be attended by representatives of cultural entities from Guangdong Province and of the Hong Kong Home Affairs Bureau. DB