The Hong Kong Palace Museum presents over 900 priceless treasures from the Palace Museum. Many of them are on display in Hong Kong for the first time, while others have never been shown to the public before. The Museum regularly presents special exhibitions featuring Chinese art and culture, as well as art and treasures from other parts of the world. # **Special Exhibition** # # Gallery 8 - The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: YUAN MING YUAN—Art and Culture of an Imperial Garden-Palace (20 March, 2024 to 12 August 2024) # A major exhibition about Yuanmingyuan imperial gardens. Shedding new light on Yuanming yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness), this exhibition features over 190 spectacular paintings, architectural models, and other works associated with this once-magnificent Qing dynasty imperial garden-palace, which served as the principal residence of five emperors. Key themes involve the life of the emperors, festivals, the aesthetic taste of the emperors, and the relationship between members of the imperial family. In this exhibition visitors will discover the crowning achievements of imperial garden-palace design, the stories about the garden’s principal residents, and the history of the Qing imperial court # Gallery 9: “The Adorned Body: French Fashion and Jewellery 1770–1910 from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris” (26 June 2024 to 14 October 2024) # The exhibition features over 300 stunning pieces of French costume, jewellery, and accessory from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, home to France’s foremost national fashion collection, to illustrate the power of fashion to transform the body in France during that period of time. Almost all exhibits will be displayed in Asia for the first time, and some of them have never been seen outside of Paris or France # Thematic Exhibition Embracing new curatorial approaches, the Museum will offer a Hong Kong perspective and a global vision, presenting the finest objects from the Palace Museum and other important cultural institutions around the world. Visit our website for more information about thematic exhibitions: hkpm.org.hk/en
“Moongate”; Interactive kinetic installation, Kenny Wong ©Hong Kong Palace Museum
Model of the Hall of Universal Peace in Yuanming yuan Imperial Architecture Studio, Beijing Qing dynasty, Tongzhi period, 1873–1874 © The Palace Museum
“The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Stories Untold—Figure Paintings of the Ming Dynasty from the Palace Museum” Exhibition © Hong Kong Palace Museum
Court dress (mantle, skirt, and stomacher), France, about 1778 Silk © MAD, Paris