To celebrate the Year of the Tiger, National Museums Liverpool launches a new photography competition for the China: Through the Lens exhibition.

National Museums Liverpool have been running various workshops for the New Year and they have some more on at the moment and over the weekend.

They have started a photo pool on their Flickr page, Liverpool's Chinatown: Through the Lens. They hope to encourage people to submit photographs of Chinatown and Chinese culture to the pool to create a really varied and interesting gallery of Liverpool-Chinese culture - the competition will run throughout the exhibition and they have a first prize of a banquet meal for two at Yuet Ben plus runners-up prizes of exhibition catalogues.

The competition is open to everyone and the potential subjects are wide-ranging - it can be of the Chinese arch, places, people, architecture, restaurants. They will be also looking to promote this amongst local photography groups and organisations.

David Lawson

Digital Communications Officer

National Museums Liverpool

Tel: 0151 478 4621

Fax: 0151 478 4777

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk