Winnie Tam Wan-chi, Betty Fung and Dr Louis Ng presented souvenirs to visitors to mark the Museum's first anniversary. (DotDotNews)
Hong Kong's newest cultural landmark, The Hong Kong Palace Museum, celebrated its first anniversary today by announcing that the fifth rotation of treasures on loan from the Palace Museum has gone on display. Most of the 51 treasures in this rotation are being seen in Hong Kong for the first time, including two Grade-one national treasures.
Winnie Tam Wan-chi, Chairman of the HKPM Board; Betty Fung, Chief Executive Officer of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority; Dr Louis Ng, Museum Director of the HKPM; Dr Daisy Wang, Deputy Director, Curatorial and Programming of the HKPM and Brian Yuen, Deputy Director, Museum Operations of the HKPM greeted visitors at the entrance today and gave away HKPM-branded souvenirs to the first 100 people passing through the Museum's doors to mark this important milestone and thank the public for their strong support throughout a successful first year of operations.
The HKPM has received tremendous support from local and international visitors since its opening in July 2022, welcoming more than 1,300,000 people through its doors in the first year of operation. Since its opening last year, the HKPM has successfully presented 12 impressive and high-quality exhibitions, each of which has taken an innovative approach to curation incorporating multimedia elements and a unique cultural perspective. In addition to other important cultural institutions around the world, the Museum has fostered strong partnerships in the areas of academic and cultural exchange by presenting some of the finest objects from the Palace Museum and cooperating with other important cultural institutions around the world. Helping to build a stronger dialogue among world civilizations and reinforcing Hong Kong's position as a center for East-meets-West international cultural exchange.
"The Maze" from Twenty Views of European-style Mansions in the Garden of Perfect Brightness, a set of prints showing the magnificent scenery of the imperial garden Yuanmingyuan of the Qing dynasty and the integration of European and Chinese painting styles and landscape architectural features. (DotDotNews)
"Presenting the Empress's Investiture Book and Seal at the Hall of Union" from The Grand Imperial Wedding of the Guangxu Emperor. This album documents different stages of the Guangxu Emperor's wedding. (DotDotNews)
"Seal of the Empress" with box and paraphernalia. Gold seals like this were often melted and recast after a new emperor was installed. This surviving gold seal is a rare example. (DotDotNews)
The Qianlong Emperor playing the zither. Emperors at leisure was a popular painting subject in the Qing court. These paintings were for amusement rather than for recording actual happenings. (DotDotNews)
Ewer in the shape of pine tree. Made from bamboo root, this ewer is realistically modeled as a pine tree, detailed with bark openings and clusters of pine needles. (DotDotNews)
Brush pot in the shape of a Chinese cabbage. The Chinese cabbage is an uncommon subject for bamboo carving. On this brush pot, overlapping layers of cabbage leaves with detailed veins and stalks are vividly carved along the natural form of the bamboo root. (DotDotNews)
Box with sea creatures. Composed of two identical parts, the exterior of the box is carved with three sea creatures playing amid crashing waves. If one looks closely, each wave is superbly filled in with thin-lined incised patterns. The interior is lacquered black, with a six-character Qianlong reign mark on the inner cover. (DotDotNews)
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