After five years, the Hong Kong Palace Museum, located in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District has officially opened, making it the latest tourism attraction for cultural and antiquities. Over 900 works of art will be on display, resulting in the largest unprecedented loan ever from the Palace Museum to a cultural institution. Many of them are on display in Hong Kong for the first time, while others have never been exhibited before.

Boasting an area of more than 30,000 square meters with 7,800 square meters of exhibition space, the Museum seeks to position Hong Kong as a hub for arts and cultural exchange between Mainland China and the rest of the world.

Museum director Louis Ng shares that the museum is geared towards promoting the transmission and dissemination of Chinese culture especially to the younger generation. Hong Kong Palace Museum has nine galleries where five galleries will play host to thematic exhibitions, two for art collections in Hong Kong and multimedia projects, and the remaining two for special exhibitions featuring Chinese art and treasures from around the world. There are also a 400-seat auditorium, learning and resource centre, activity rooms, atrium with viewing decks, gift shop and restaurants.