Palace Museum to bring Islamic, Tutankhamun relics to Hong Kong in 2025
Museum’s number of visitors fell by 17 per cent last year to 1 million, compared with 1.2 million in 2023
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 Tutankhamun.
The museum, part of the city’s West Kowloon Cultural District, announced its line-up of exhibitions for the year on Monday, with Mughal treasures from the UK’s Victoria and Albert Museum among those set to feature.
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,” said Louis Ng Chi-wa, director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum.
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.
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.”
