As the Beijing Palace Museum celebrates its 100th anniversary, a growing level of exchanges is taking place between the two institutions
The Hong Kong museum is run independently from its Beijing “big brother”, but the ties between them are well known.
In 2016, then Hong Kong Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced without any public consultation that the city’s West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) was to build a Hong Kong Palace Museum, a plan initiated by the Palace Museum in Beijing and funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC).
Now, as Beijing’s Palace Museum celebrates its 100th anniversary, the three-year-old HKPM is thriving thanks to mainland China’s support, said its director, Louis Ng Chi-wa, in Beijing.
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