Heritage Fiesta cum Roving Exhibition 2024

Heritage Fiesta cum Roving Exhibition

The Heritage Fiesta 2024, held by the Commissioner for Heritage’s Office (CHO) of the Development Bureau from October to November 2024, features 11 declared monuments and graded historic buildings reflecting Hong Kong’s prominent role as an East-meets-West cultural hub. A related roving exhibition will be held from October 2024 to January 2025.

Participating Historic Buildings

The participating historic buildings include “Bethanie Campus, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts” (The Bethanie), “Christ the King Chapel” (St. Paul’s Convent), “First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hong Kong”, “Former French Mission Building”, “Fringe Club (South Block, Old Dairy Farm Depot)”, “Hindu Temple” in Happy Valley, “HKRep Education Hub” (Ex-Portuguese Community School (Escola Camões)), “Jamia Mosque”, “Main Building, St. Stephen's Girls' College”, “Nos. 88 & 90 Staunton Street” and “Ohel Leah Synagogue”.

Free Guided Tours, Workshops, Community Music Performance and Public Lectures

All participating historic buildings will provide free guided tours during the period of Heritage Fiesta from 1 October to 30 November. Members of the public can also visit these historic buildings* at their specific opening hours and time during the event period. In addition, on the first day of the event (1 October), free workshops and free community music performance will be held at some of the participating historic buildings. Members of the public are invited to register online for the above activities (walk-in admission for community music performance). For details, please refer to the event booklet. (The guided tours of Ohel Leah Synagogue are fully booked)

To complement the event, a series of public lectures featuring the participating historic buildings will be held by the Antiquities and Monuments Office (AMO) at the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui. Details of the public lectures will be available on AMO’s website (www.amo.gov.hk/en/visitor-centre/education-programmes/education-activities/index.html).

Enrolment and Result Announcement

• Guided tours and workshops of participating historic buildings require online enrolment. Participants will be selected by drawing lots should the number of applications exceeds quotas. Three phases of enrolment and results announcement of the guided tours and workshops are listed in the table below.
• Tours of Ohel Leah Synagogue accepts email enrolment starting from 17 September (2 pm) on a first-come, first-served basis. The enrolment will be considered unsuccessful if the applicants do not receive notification before 25 October. (The guided tours of Ohel Leah Synagogue are fully booked)

Roving Exhibition

Dates and venues of the related roving exhibition are as follows:

Stamp Collection

Members of the public can collect stamp print featuring façade of each participating historic building during the guided tours, or by visiting the corresponding building* at its specific opening dates and time. The full set of stamp prints can also be collected at the roving exhibition venues (including Event Hall, UG/F, Citywalk 2 in Tsuen Wan, Covered Piazza of Times Square in Causeway Bay, and Lobby on 1/F of Immigration Tower in Wan Chai).

Event Booklet

Event booklets are available at the following locations during the event period on a first-come, first-served basis and while stock lasts:

• Roving exhibition venues
• Museums (the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Museum of the War of Resistance and Coastal Defence, the Hong Kong Museum of History, the Hong Kong Science Museum, the Hong Kong Space Museum, the Ping Shan Tang Clan Gallery cum Heritage Trail Visitors Centre, the Sam Tung Uk Museum)
• PMQ
• Tung Wah Group of Hospitals’ temples
• Visitor centre of the Hong Kong Tourism Board in Tsim Sha Tsui
• Customer services centre at Hong Kong International Airport
• Venues of the 13 revitalisation projects under Batch I to V of the "Revitalising Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme" (Tai O Heritage Hotel, Hong Kong Baptist University School of Chinese Medicine - Lui Seng Chun, YHA Mei Ho House Youth Hostel, Jao Tsung-I Academy, Green Hub, Stone Houses Family Garden, Viva Blue House, Hong Kong News-Expo, The HKFYG Leadership Institute, The Pokfulam Farm, Tai Hang Fire Dragon Heritage Centre, Sik Sik Yuen Lady Ho Tung Welfare Centre Eco-Learn Institute, and Luen Wo Market - House of Urban and Rural Living).

Enquiries

For enquiries, please call 2906 1559.

* Some historic buildings are not open for public entry (Only accessible for participants of specially arranged guided tours in this event). Please refer to the event booklet for details.

Supporting Organisations (in alphabetical order)

Acknowledgement (in alphabetical order)

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hong Kong

Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres

Last Update: 3 February 2025