The museum under construction in the West Kowloon Cultural District aims to relate Chinese national treasures to modern life Courtesy of the Hong Kong Palace Museum
The Hong Kong Palace Museum will show some 800 Chinese national treasures when it opens in mid-2022, but it should not be seen as a branch of the world-famous institution in Beijing’s Forbidden City, says its director.
“We have no intention to build a branch… but to use Hong Kong as a platform to give a new interpretation of [the Palace Museum’s] collection,” says Louis Ng, a veteran Hong Kong arts administrator, in an interview with