Hong Kong Palace Museum General Admission

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.

Gazing at Sanxingdui: New Archaeological Discoveries in Sichuan Time: 2023.09.27 - 2024.01.08 Location: Gallery 8

Hong Kong Palace Museum and Sichuan Cultural Institutions are co-organisingthe Special Exhibition “Gazing at Sanxingdui: New Archaeological Discoveries in Sichuan”.Thisthree-and-half-month-long exhibitionfeatures spectacular recent archaeological discoveries at Sanxingdui.“Gazing at Sanxingdui” highlights new archaeological discoveries at Sanxingdui in Sichuan province, featuring 120 bronze, jade, gold, and pottery objects dating to 2,600–4,500 years ago, with 23 grade-one national treasures. Nearly half of these were unearthed in the most recent excavations at the Sanxingdui site between 2020 and 2022, and many are being exhibited outside Sichuan for the first time, such as bronze heads, mythical creatures, eye-shaped objects, dragon-shaped objects, a hybrid tiger-dragon figure, as well as a jade rectangular stand with animal face and phoenix-bird motifs, which are currently on display at the new Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan, Sichuan.

Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London​ Time: 2023.11.22 - 2024.4.11​ Location: Gallery 9​

The special exhibition marks the debut of the Hong Kong Palace Museum’s permanent collection at a major special exhibition and is the biggest exhibition on ancient gold artefacts in Hong Kong in recent years.​ On view from 22 February through 03 October 2023, it showcases more than 200 sets of ancient golds selected from the generous donations by Betty Lo and Kenneth Chu to the HKPM and their world-renowned Mengdiexuan Collection. These precious objects from the Eurasian Steppe, Tubo Kingdom, and Central Plains, with the oldest dating back to the 18th century BCE, highlight the artistic and technical achievements of gold in ancient China. The exhibition also explores the role of gold in political activities, life, culture, and the dynamic connections across territories over the past 3,000 years.​