Calendar 2006–07

Research Institutes and Centres 335 Art Museum Tel.: 2609 7416 Fax.: 2603 5366 E-mail: artmuseum@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/amm The Art Museum, established in 1971, serves the community by collecting, preserving, researching and exhibiting a wide range of artifacts illuminating the rich arts, humanities and cultural heritage of ancient and pre-modern China. As a university teaching museum, it collaborates with the Department of Fine Arts, as well as several University faculties to advocate interdisciplinary approaches to the social, cultural, technological and historical context of Chinese art. To promote the appreciation and the understanding of Chinese art, the Art Museum mounts special exhibitions, organizes lectures and symposia, and publishes fully illustrated catalogues of exhibitions and monographs of its collection. The museum collection consists of over 12,000 pieces of Chinese art from the Neolithic to modern periods, including painting and calligraphy, rubbings of ancient calligraphy, seals, ceramics, jades, bronzes, lacquerwares and objects for the scholar’s studio. Notable among them are archaic seals, epigraphy and rubbings, painting and calligraphy of the Song and Yuan dynasties, painting and calligraphy by Guangdong artists, and trade porcelain, which form the basis of research projects at the museum. The Annex provides technical support for the museum. This includes the conservation of works of art, the mounting of Chinese paintings, audio-visual processing, woodwork, photographic and graphic design services. The Friends of the Art Museum was founded in 1981 to support the Art Museum and to promote its activities. Membership is open to the public. Centre for Chinese Archaeology and Art Tel.: 2609 7371 Fax.: 2603 7539 E-mail: ccaa@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/ccaa The centre was established in 1978 to undertake research in Chinese archaeology and art. The purpose was to pool the resources of the Art Museum and the departments of history, fine arts, and anthropology to promote research cooperation with museums and universities in mainland China and abroad. Recently the centre has shifted its emphasis to the building of a new archaeology museum and field archaeology. Its field work team has become active in local excavations as well as collaborative projects with research institutes on the mainland and in southeast Asia, including the investigation and find analysis for the sites in Inner Mongolia and Vietnam. The centre has published several series of monographs and books on specialized subjects.