The Hong Kong Palace Museum has finally completed its construction and opened to the public on 3 July 2022. As an independent institution, the Hong Kong Palace Museum collaborated with the Beijing Palace Museum for the much-anticipated grand opening to feature 1,000 selected treasures from Beijing as well as other leading cultural institutions, including the Louvre. The talk by the Assistant Curator Dr Shengyu Wang will begin with introducing us to the architecture on the Victoria Harbour riverfront designed by the Hong Kong firm of Rocco Design Architects, and the museum's role and mission to bridge the local community with the global world at large. This will be followed by a discussion of the space of the nine galleries within the museum, which covers 5,000 years of Chinese history. The unique aspect of the Hong Kong Palace Museum is to integrate contemporary works or designs with ancient artifacts to instil pluralist meanings and inspire new ways of interpretation for visiting audiences of the 21st century.

The Speaker

Dr Shengyu Wang is an Assistant Curator at the Hong Kong Palace Museum. She is a DPhil graduate in archaeology from the University of Oxford. Her doctorate thesis focuses on the auspicious ornament in early imperial China, part of which has been published by Cambridge University Press. Her research interests extend to Central Asia and the international exchange of scholarship. She has been working part-time for Shanghai Museum and Ashmolean Museum since 2012, participating in archaeological excavations as well as lecturing on Chinese art and calligraphy at Oxford and in China. She double-majored in Museology and Chinese Literature as an undergraduate at Peking University.

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