This special exhibition offers visitors a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to appreciate thirty early treasures of Chinese painting and calligraphy from the Palace Museum collection

With more than 100 of the finest paintings, sculptures, and decorative art objects from the Palace Museum, this special exhibition offers visitors a rare opportunity to learn

Built on Beijing’s central axis, the position of the Forbidden City testifies to its significance to Chinese politics and culture

Follow in the footsteps of the emperors and empresses of the Forbidden City and experience court life in the eighteenth century

The Palace Museum is home to one of the world’s richest collections of Chinese ceramics

The ruling family of the Qing dynasty observed the Confucian tradition of filial piety and ancestor veneration

While the term sheji (“design”) was not used in China until the late nineteenth century, artisans there have been designing and making beautiful and ingenious objects for millennia

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, an influx of people and antiquities from Mainland China turned Hong Kong into a prosperous metropolis and a hub for collecting Chinese art

In this exhibition, the Museum invites six Hong Kong-based multimedia and interdisciplinary artists to create new works and interpret the art and culture of the Forbidden City from a fresh perspective

The lecture will explore the reasons why a large number of jades from the Islamic world travelled to China and entered the Qing imperial collection in the second half of the eighteenth century

Mr Lyu Chenglong, Research Fellow and Director, Department of Antiquities, Palace Museum, will explore ancient Chinese export ceramics in the Palace Museum collection

The lecture will introduce European cannon technology in the reign of the Kangxi Emperor, and explore how these developments strengthened the army and ensured the stability and growth of the empire

The lecture will explore the imperial costume of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), and its cultural significance. Topics include the ranked hierarchy the costume embodied, and the Manchu and Han-Chinese cultural elements of the Qing imperial costume

Chinese emperors often personally supervised the production and selection of objects for their palaces, and in doing so shaped the ways in which objects were produced with their aesthetic preferences. This talk explores how imperial taste led to new developments in porcelain making

Jades occupy a unique place in Chinese culture.  With a symbolic significance that far exceeds their decorative function, jades have been an important component in Chinese society for more than eight thousand years

The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) is pleased to announce the launch of the “HKPM Connects” booth at Fine Art Asia 2021, from 8 to 11 October 2021 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

Dr Louis Ng, Director of Hong Kong Palace Museum, will elaborate on the setting up and development strategy of HKPM

Dr Daisy Yiyou Wang, Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, will explore the role of women in the formation of masterpieces in the history of Chinese painting and calligraphy. She will examine important works, such as The Nymph of the Luo River and The Late Autumn Letter in Running Script from new perspectives

The Honourable Bernard Charnwut Chan and Dr Louis Ng Chi-wa had an online conversation on the groundwork and planning of the Hong Kong Palace Museum on 22 May 2021. Watch this video now for the highlights of this talk

Focusing on the calligraphy piece On Szechwan Silk by Mi Fu, one of the four masters of the Northern Song dynasty, this lecture led by Mr HO Chuan-Hsing, Former Deputy Director, Palace Museum, Taipei, examines the key factors in the birth of a masterpiece

The Palace Museum Culture Lecture Series is a three-part lecture featuring experts from Palace Museums in China mainland, Taipei and Hong Kong. The first lecture, presented by Ren Wanping, leading expert on Qing Dynasty and Deputy Director of Palace Museum, looks at the traditional culture of the Forbidden City

This free online class will equip you with effective teaching tools and innovative object-based learning methods that can be applied in a wide variety of educational settings, from the museum and classroom to online platforms and home

Dr Wang Xudong, Director of the Palace Museum, shared his expertise in preserving two World Heritage Sites – Dunhuang and the Palace Museum. He also offered new insights into questions such as how to connect Chinese traditional culture to people’s lives today and how to bring it into the twenty-first century