Hong Kong Palace Museum Ticket

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Located at the western tip of the West Kowloon Cultural District, The Hong Kong Palace Museum presents several hundred 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. Embracing new curatorial approaches, the Museum will offer a Hong Kong perspective and a global vision, and regularly presents special exhibitions featuring Chinese art and culture, as well as art and treasures from other parts of the world.

Nine Galleries at a Glance

The Hong Kong Palace Museum contains a total of nine galleries, each hosting thematic exhibitions. In the Opening Exhibition, five of the nine galleries will host exhibitions that dive into a wide range of topics related to the Palace Museum, including its architecture, art collections (including paintings, calligraphies, ceramics and art objects), cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries in the Ming and Qing dynasties, court life and culture, as well as the museum’s role in intangible cultural heritage transmission. Two other galleries will feature Chinese art collections from Hong Kong along with multimedia installations from Hong Kong artists inspired by palace culture. The Museum regularly presents special exhibitions featuring Chinese art and culture, as well as art and treasures from other parts of the world.

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The Hong Kong Palace Museum presents hundreds of 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: “Treasures of Global Jewellery from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Body Transformed” (15 April - 19 October 2026)

The first major showcase in Hong Kong of global jewellery from five continents made over the course of nearly 4,000 years between the second millennium BCE and the 21st century. The exhibition marks The Met’s debut in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area. With approximately 200 spectacular treasures from The Met along with selected objects from the HKPM collection, the close relationship between body and jewellery will be explored. The masterpieces will display the depth and breadth of the encyclopedic collection of this world-renowned museum and illustrate the diversity and interconnectedness of global jewellery.

Gallery 9 - Special Exhibition "Ancient Egypt Unveiled —Treasures from Egyptian Museums” (20 November 2025 – 31 August 2026)

The largest, most comprehensive, and longest-running display of ancient Egyptian treasures in Hong Kong. The exhibition features an extraordinary collection of 250 precious artefacts on loan from the SCA of Egypt, drawn from seven of its affiliated museums. The exhibition also includes recent archaeological discoveries from the Saqqara —the vast necropolis of the ancient capital of Memphis, located south of Cairo. The precious artefacts include monumental statues, painted and inscribed stone stelae, mummy coffins and masks, jewellery, everyday objects, and animal mummies. These objects span nearly 5,000 years of history. Many of these objects, of extraordinary historical and scholarly significance, are exhibited outside Egypt for the first time.

Thematic exhibitions

Gallery 1: The Forbidden City and the World: Cultural Encounters

The exhibition situates the Forbidden City and Chinese history in a global context and weaves a rich tapestry of China’s interactions—in diplomacy, trade, science, philosophy, and craftwork—with world civilisations. Featuring over 150 exceptional objects from the Palace Museum that were produced in China, Asia, and Europe, the exhibition celebrates China’s artistic achievements. Through exploring the cosmopolitanism of the Forbidden City, the modes of cultural exchange during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and China’s contribution to world civilisations, the exhibition exemplifies the Hong Kong Palace Museum’s mission to advance the inheritance and innovation of excellent traditional Chinese culture while fostering dialogue between China and the rest of the world. The exhibition is jointly organised by the HKPM and the Palace Museum. © Hong Kong Palace Museum

Gallery 2: “From Dawn to Dusk: Life and Art in the Forbidden City”

Follow in the footsteps of the emperors and empresses of the Forbidden City and experience court life in the eighteenth century. Significant events from morning to bedtime and over 300 sumptuous treasures from the Palace Museum represent key moments in their busy and well-regulated lives. These moments bring to life the colour, texture, joy, and sorrow of life inside the Forbidden City. © Hong Kong Palace Museum

Gallery 3: “Brilliance: Ming Dynasty Ceramic Treasures from the Palace Museum, 1368–1644” thematic exhibition

The Chinese ceramics housed in the Palace Museum—unparalleled in volume, quality, and variety—are mainly inherited from the imperial collections of the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties. This exhibition features Ming ceramic treasures from the collection of the Palace Museum and explores the development and the outstanding achievements of ceramic production in form, glaze, and design in the early, mid-, and late Ming dynasty. © Hong Kong Palace Museum

Gallery 4: Heavenly Horses: Masterpieces from the Palace Museum

Celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Horse in 2026, the “Heavenly Horses” exhibition displays nearly 100 horse-themed paintings by more than 60 renowned artists from the Yuan dynasty up to the 20th century, considering imperial and literati practices, the relationship between tradition and modernity, and the dialogue between Chinese and Western painting styles. © Hong Kong Palace Museum

Gallery 5: The Quest for Originality: Contemporary Design and Traditional Craft in Dialogue

This exhibition brings together nearly 100 precious objects from the Palace Museum in lively dialogue with Hong Kong contemporary design talents. It demonstrates the deep interest in innovation, materiality, and function in design shared by people of the past and today, and how contemporary work draws inspiration from time-honoured traditions. © Hong Kong Palace Museum

Gallery 6: “Joyful Encounters: The Connoisseurship and Art of Wong Kwan Shut”

Organised by the Hong Kong Palace Museum. The exhibition is a major survey of the creative journey of the Hong Kong calligrapher, painter, and art collector Mr Wong Kwan Shut, presenting a recent gift of over 60 important works to the HKPM by his wife, Mrs Wong Pong Chi-ying. The exhibition illuminates not only Wong’s main artistic styles and achievements but also the close connections between his collecting and artistic creation. As the fourth exhibition of major collections donated to the HKPM, it underscores the quality and depth of the Museum’s growing collection. © Hong Kong Palace Museum

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

Opening hours

• Monday, Wednesday, Thursday: 10:00 - 18:00
• Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Public Holiday: 10:00 - 20:00
• Closed on Tuesdays (except public holidays)

The duration of each exhibition varies. Please refer to the Museum website for the latest information

Address : West Kowloon Cultural District, 8 Museum Drive, Kowloon