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The Great Typhoon of 22-23 September 1874 was the worst natural disaster ever to hit Macau. Combining tempest, flood, and fire, it left the city devastated, with close to 5,000 people dead and around 1,200 junks and sampans destroyed. In the final days of September 1874, the Chinese photographer Lai Afong took a set of haunting photographs of the impact of the typhoon had wreaked upon familiar and previously picturesque views of the ravaged city. One hundred and fifty years later, their emotional impact is still intense.

This exhibition, co-sponsored by the Library, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and the Portuguese Delegation of the University of St. Joseph, Macau, and the Centro Cientifico e Cultural de Macau (CCCM) in Lisbon, features twelve of these brutally realistic photographs, reproduced from the CCCM’s collections. It places them against the background of the beginning of a new era in the international reporting and depiction of natural disasters. The typhoon, the first for which relatively accurate data was recorded, coincided with and boosted efforts by meteorologists across Asia—Macau included—to understand, predict, and share information on typhoons and hazardous weather.

在150年前，1874年9月發生了澳門歷史上最嚴重的自然災害——甲戌風災。

這場結合了暴風、洪水和火災的災難，令整個澳門陷入毀滅，近五千人喪生，約有一千二百艘漁船和小艇被摧毀。風災發生後，中國攝影師賴阿芳拍攝了一組令人心碎的照片，展現了颱風對這座熟悉而美麗的城市造成的影響。

本次展覽由澳門聖若瑟大學圖書館、人文藝術學院及葡萄牙代表辦事處共同主辦，並由位於里斯本的澳門科學文化中心（CCCM）協辦，展出了十二幅風災後最真實的照片，這些照片均來自CCCM的收藏。這場颱風是首次有相對準確數據記錄的颱風，並促進了澳門及亞洲各地氣象學家去理解、預測和分享有關颱風及危險天氣的信息。

展覽將引領大家重新了解甲戌風災對世界的影響，同時設有沉浸式風暴體驗。歡迎大家𦲷臨觀賞。