Hong Kong Palace Museum opens to public on July 2
The opening exhibitions of Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) are jointly curated by HKPM and the Palace Museum. 914 pieces of priceless treasure from the Palace Museum – the biggest loan to another cultural institution outside the Mainland since its establishment in 1925 – will be put on display on rotation at the opening exhibitions of HKPM. Some of the pieces are being shown in Hong Kong for the first time. They will be exhibited alongside more than 100 exhibits on loan from local museums and cultural institutions. HKPM will also display 13 precious art objects loaned from the Louvre Museum in Paris, a testimony to cultural and knowledge exchange between China and other countries.
HKPM contains a total of nine galleries, each hosting thematic exhibitions or special exhibitions. In the opening exhibitions, Galleries 1 to 5 will host exhibitions that dive into a wide range of topics related to the Palace Museum, including its architecture, art collections like paintings, calligraphies, ceramics and art objects, cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries in the Ming and Qing dynasties, court life and culture, as well as the museum’s role in intangible cultural heritage transmission. Galleries 6 and 7 will feature Chinese art collections from Hong Kong along with multimedia installations from Hong Kong artists inspired by palace culture. Galleries 8 and 9 are devoted to large-scale special exhibitions, presenting the finest and rarest Chinese paintings and calligraphic works from the Palace Museum along with artworks that highlight the significance of the horse in both Chinese and world cultures.
To celebrate its opening, the museum will open to the public free of charge every Wednesday in the first 12 months (special exhibitions and events excluded). Admission tickets for the first four weeks will be available for purchase from June 14. Members of the public can purchase tickets through the HKPM website, the West Kowloon Cultural District website, the West Kowloon Cultural District app, or the online platforms of HKPM’s ticketing partners including Klook, China Travel Service (Hong Kong) Limited and Fliggy.
Hong Kong Palace Museum, West Kowloon Cultural District, 8 Museum Drive, 2200 0217
