Annual Report 2013–14

氣候變化博物館 賽馬會氣候變化博物館於2013年12月 16日開幕，該館位於中大康本國際學 術園八樓，是本港首間以氣候變化為主 題的博物館，展出有關全球暖化及氣候 變化的珍貴展品、標本、圖片、互動模 擬設備和多媒體資訊，免費開放予公眾 參觀，俾了解氣候變化對個人及全球的 影響。 賽馬會氣候變化博物館是香港中文大學 賽馬會地球保源行動三個重點項目之 一。該行動為期五年，獲賽馬會慈善信 託基金撥款五千四百萬港元支持，由中 大推行各類型公眾教育活動，宣揚環境 保護及可持續發展。 博物館分「極地廊」、「衞星遙感及 環境監測」、「香港中文大學的創新 研究」和「香港賽馬會環保天地四大展 區」。「極地廊」內大部分珍貴展品， 是由全球首名踏足三極（北極、南極及 珠穆朗瑪峰）的香港女探險家、中國 極地博物館基金創辦人李樂詩博士 捐贈，包括不少罕有標本，例如 鯨魚脊骨、北極馴鹿角、北極 棉、變質岩、企鵝蛋，及一 款名為菊石的已絕種軟體動 物等。 Museum of Climate Change The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change (MoCC), the territory’s first public museum on climate change, celebrated its opening on 16 December 2013. Located on the eighth floor of Yasumoto International Academic Park at CUHK, the MoCC showcases valuable specimens, pictures, interactive simulators and multimedia information on global warming and climate change to raise public awareness of the severe impact on individuals and the world. The MoCC is open free to the public. The MoCC is one of three key initiatives of the CUHK Jockey Club Initiative Gaia, a five-year community engagement programme to promote environmental protection and sustainability launched by CUHK, with a generous donation of HK$54 million by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. The exhibition area of the MoCC is divided into four permanent sections, namely, Polar Gallery, Remote Sensing and Environmental Monitoring, Research and Innovation at CUHK, and The Hong Kong Jockey Club Green Gallery. The bulk of the Polar Gallery’s displays are invaluable artefacts donated by Dr. Rebecca Lee Lok-sze, founder of the China Polar Museum Foundation and the first woman and Hongkonger to have visited the Earth’s three extremities — the North Pole, the South Pole, and Mount Everest. Visitors will have the privilege to see rare specimens such as whale vertebrae, antlers of an Arctic deer, Arctic cotton grass, a penguin egg, and a beautiful extinct mollusk called ammonite. 42 發展里程 Development Milestones