Visitors hoping for a colourful souvenir of Hong Kong's biggest exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso are walking away with nothing more than a photocopied leaflet.
While a colourful brochure is normally a must at art exhibitions, organisers of the Masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso, Paris exhibition at the Heritage Museum in Sha Tin have not finished producing it.
The 14,900 people who visited the exhibition, part of the Le French May cultural festival, in its first three days were handed a black-and-white photocopy after production of the brochure took longer than expected.
Hui Chi-wai, 23, a designer who visited the show on Sunday, said she was not happy.
'I have never visited an exhibition like that without any brochure,' she said, adding that she expected better from the French organisers.
The Leisure and Cultural Services Department said it and the co-organiser, the French consulate, were printing 200,000 copies of the colour brochure. In the meantime, a catalogue is available from the museum shop for HK$350.