The Hong Kong Palace Museum, which recorded a 17 per cent drop in visits year on year in 2024, will hold seven exhibitions in 2025, with unprecedented collaborations set to bring to the city artefacts highlighting Qatar’s Islamic art and the life of Egypt’s King Tutankhamen.
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The museum, part of the city’s West Kowloon Cultural District, announced on Monday its line-up of exhibitions this year, set to feature Mughal treasures from the UK’s Victoria and Albert Museum.
Three shows featuring collections mainly from the Beijing Palace Museum and another with artefacts from a private collector are also on the agenda.
“We are so excited about the coming shows, normally a museum will not do so many shows in a year,” Hong Kong Palace Museum director Louis Ng Chi-wa said.
He added that compared with last year’s six exhibitions, seven would take place in the city in 2025, with an additional one travelling to Beijing.
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Daisy Wang Yiyou, deputy director of the museum, said: “There are some artefacts from Doha and Egypt that have not been shown in Hong Kong before, which means you [would have had] to fly to Egypt to see those relics.”
Ng said that visitors could expect a higher-than-normal price for entrance to the Egyptian show as a result of “the very high costs of the exhibition”.