Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery
Museum of Fine Arts University of Hong Kong (HKU Museum) is located in the No. 90 Bonham Road next to the East Gate entrance University of Hong Kong, the Fung Ping Shan Building (now part of a historic building) and Xu Zhantang Building composition, is Hong Kong's oldest existing museums.
Museum of Fine Arts University of Hong Kong is Hong Kong's oldest museum, founded in 1953, first called "Fung Ping Shan Museum", a building formerly occupied in 1932 enabled "Fung Ping Shan Chinese Library" , both to people donated the building to name. To 1994, the museum was renamed the "Museum of Fine Arts University of Hong Kong." In 1996, the museum has added a new wing, located Xu Zhantang Building completion and opening of the exhibition hall. In the past six decades, many museums wishlists historical value of Chinese art, which is divided bronzes, ceramics and paintings into three categories, the years to the Neolithic Age, the next as the Qing Dynasty, which included the Ming Dynasty to twenty-century Chinese painting and modern painting.
In ceramics, museum collections including the Neolithic pottery, lead glaze is the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, Tang Sancai and brilliant color. Other collections have more early and celadon porcelain, porcelain Most of these people who love Southeast Asia and South Korea. Works of famous kilns of the Song Dynasty Ding and there Cizhou. As for the Ming and Qing monochrome porcelain and ceramics, as well as popular in the Middle East and European countries glaze in blue or blue and white porcelain, the museum is also in possession of some representative works. Which will be to the glaze of the Tang Dynasty in the blue dot three-foot water column is most precious, which is China's earliest examples of blue and white.
As for bronze, Museum of the Shang and Western Zhou ritual, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty bronze mirror, as well as the world's richest collections in the Yuan Dynasty Nestorian crosses. In other works of art, the museum is also in possession wood, jade and stone carvings, as well as a small amount of the Ming Dynasty to the modern Chinese ink painting and twentieth century Chinese painting.
In addition to collections on display, the museum often hosts all kinds of exhibitions to introduce Chinese and Western contemporary and traditional arts, as well as the early history of Hong Kong, and hold seminars, lectures, visual arts and play activities. Museums also involved teaching the Art Department of the University of Hong Kong, Professor of Ancient Chinese Art and Museology courses, adhering to the museum to education as the goal of purpose, hope to broaden students' horizons and knowledge of the field of education through art.
Scenic Area Address: Hong Kong Mid-Levels West Bonham Road No. 94 University of Hong Kong Fung Ping Shan Building downstairs Xu Zhantang
Bus routes: Take 103 Road; Citybus 3b, 40m, 40-way; Hong Kong Island GMB 10x, 22s, 22 Road; NWFB 23, h1 way to go.