Hong Kong Museum of Art is located in the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront, close to Space Museum, five-storey, approximately ten times larger than the area of ​​the old building, art equipment. The museum has six exhibition halls, lecture halls, outdoor sculpture courtyard, galleries and art fairs services. Because a lot of the museum treasures, staff need to pick more than one hundred pieces of fine exhibition in the exhibition hall regularly. The public can enjoy a variety of local and overseas famous works of art. Hong Kong Museum of Art is one of the HKSAR Government Leisure and Cultural Services Department Museum.

Hong Kong Museum of Art was founded in 1962, originally located in City Hall High Block, 1991 in Hong Kong Cultural Center, the completion of the new museum, is the shift moved to its present site. Museum of Tea Ware Museum of Art as well as under the branch, located in Hong Kong Park. Art gallery dedicated to preserving the essence of Chinese culture and promote Hong Kong art collections have so far collected more than 15,000 pieces, including creations Chinese painting and calligraphy, ancient heritage treasures, historic paintings and local artists. Featured collections on display at the long-term part of the exhibition hall. Special Exhibition Gallery also organizes its local and around the world invited to come back short-term exhibitions, including ancient and modern themes.

Hong Kong Museum of Art is divided into seven exhibition halls: Special Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong contemporary art exhibitions, Xubaizhai Museum Collection of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Chinese cultural relics exhibition hall and the Chinese Fine Art Gallery. Exhibition of the works of art China, Hong Kong and around the world, more than 14,000 the number of exhibits. Including creations Chinese painting and calligraphy, ancient heritage treasures, historic paintings and local artists. Featured collections on display at the long-term part of the exhibition hall. Special Exhibition Gallery also organizes its local and around the world invited to come back short-term exhibitions, including ancient and modern themes. Museum of Art held from time to time various types of art exhibitions are also open to schools, organizations and the public to visit.

Contemporary art gallery of the works on display is the exhibition for 10 years as a unit, where you can clearly see from the 1950s onwards the context of local arts development. Meanwhile shop is also a collection of Chinese calligraphy and painting, and a special exhibition hall works of art abroad. And ocean-going merchant ships sailing China flat model of museum exhibits, enough to make fans and those models Boats fans jumping for joy. There are those huge windows facing the leather armchair, allows visitors to get enough rest and enjoy the wonderful street outside the window.

Tips:

1. Chinese New Year's Day and on Thursday, two days of;

2. Saturdays extended until 08:00 PM Closed;

3. Lunar New Year's Eve at 05:00 pm closing.

Chinese Cultural Relics

Hong Kong Museum of Chinese antiquities department of the museum collection is the most abundant species, the oldest covered years; issued and intricate works of art from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century between all gotten involved. Namely, Chinese ceramics, ceramics, Guangdong, China exported ceramics, Southeast Asia, ceramics, clothing and embroidery and other arts and crafts, including bronzes, jade carvings, lacquer, enamel, glass, bamboo, wood, ivory, rhino horn, snuff bottles and furniture more than four thousand craft, whether for decoration, household, ritual, burial, they are experienced thousands of years of history and preservation of cultural property to date. Holding each blend of highly creative and technical excellence, provides an important physical data for the study of ancient Chinese society and culture, and provide a strong basis for dating comparative study of collections of artifacts and collectors. Hong Kong is located in the southern gateway to China, but also in foreign traffic, but also take on a major role, so the Hong Kong and Guangdong Lingnan heritage and related, is also one of the focus of the museum collection project. Over the years, the Hong Kong Museum of Art addition to actively purchase all kinds of cultural relics, and through exhibitions to promote Chinese culture, fortunately won the enthusiastic support of the community to donate its collection period, so that increasingly rich collection of cultural relics. For example, in 1985 Dr. Ye Yi donated a batch of bamboo carving works reflect the lives of the literati and face. Mr. Hu Chao and Ms. Guo An, respectively, in 1986 and donated one thousand nine hundred eighty-seven Shiwan pottery, fully demonstrating the local characteristics of the Guangdong famous kilns. In addition, many people and organizations also donated to both fine and beauty of precious cultural relics, reflecting the public enthusiasm for heritage preservation, but also the support of the Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Chinese Painting and Calligraphy

Hong Kong Museum of Chinese painting and calligraphy museum's collection focused on the Guangdong Modern Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy. Chinese painting and calligraphy museum collections of history can be traced back to 1964, the collection has more than four thousand works of art. In addition to constantly purchase and collection, there are also a number of collectors depends on generous donations, such as He Zizhong, Mr. Huang Bore donated Guangdong painting, Mr. Shao trip donate "Tai Lou Collection of Modern Chinese Painting and Calligraphy" Mr. Wu Guanzhong donated paintings and Ms. Zhang Yu donations "new literati painting" and other works, the collection is becoming richer and more historical, artistic value.

History painting

Hong Kong Museum of Art's first collection includes a number of valuable historical painting, that is, some of the old paintings reflect the people's livelihood, customs, the local style. Long before the establishment of the Museum of Art, and the Chater businessman Sir Robert He Dong, he has donated his private collection to the Hong Kong government, which mostly depict 18﹑19 century commercial port along the Pearl River Delta and the Chinese paintings, also photographs and maps. Subsequently the government has acquired Thayer and Roche's paintings. 1962 Hong Kong Museum of Art predecessor - the establishment of the Hong Kong Museum of Fine Arts, which receives and manages several groups of paintings. Museum of Art this as a basis to continue to purchase and collection, today the formation of large-scale collection of historical paintings, has reserves have more than eleven hundred pieces. History painting not only reflected the well-known painter Anonymous or artistic achievements, is also an important in-kind study of history. Here we introduce part of its collection of historical paintings art gallery for you to include a dripping meticulous brushwork Handicraft Chinese painter, and Western painters. You will see from the front face of the simplicity of Hong Kong history, development and change in the government under the colonial rule; but also the feelings of the last century romantic Macao South Bay, the old city of Guangzhou prosperous situation.

Hong Kong Arts

Hong Kong is located in a southern Chinese frontier, a hundred years from fisheries and social development as a business city, although residents of predominantly Chinese, but after all, East meets West, and thus save both the fine tradition of Chinese in all aspects of culture, art, and even lifestyle, and see the impact of Western thought, a diversified social and cultural characteristics. Hong Kong is also committed to the artist roots in Chinese culture, but also absorb the spirit of the new era, keen on the creation of innovative, positive reform, full of local color form a unique artistic world.

Contemporary Hong Kong Art Development although only a hundred years of history, but as early as in the twenties and thirties have been the basis for the development of cohesion. Mainland artists to frequent exchanges in Hong Kong, Huayuan, Art Society have been established. Painter Feng Kang Hou (1901-1983), Jane Jinglun (1888-1950) and other accounts set up apprentices. Oil painter Li Bing (1903-1994), more than this (1905-1995) and coming back from Europe, the introduction of Western art concepts, lay-volt line for the arts after saying.

As for the new millennium and century what circumstances? Time will testify, but one thing is certain, Hong Kong artists will certainly back the history, look to the future, will be flourishing art scene.

Museum of Tea Ware

Museum of Tea Ware, Hong Kong Museum of Art branch, open for public visit in January 27th, 1984. The main Museum of Tea Ware is to collect, study and exhibit Flagstaff and relevant information, so the international tea is the first thematic museum. The basic collections of Museum of Tea Ware (1910-1995) donated by Dr. Luo Guixiang, including a group of about six hundred, dating from the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century BC - 771 BC) tea ware and related to the twentieth century. Half of these are in the collection of ceramic tea set, in which sub-note namely, bowls, cups, teapot and tureen and so on. The other half is made by a group of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) to modern Yixing pottery, including all kinds of tea, sculpture and text to play. In addition, a small amount of European and Japanese-style teapot, corroboration influence was Chinese tea set for foreign countries.

Museum of Tea Ware tea houses with Luo Guixiang, Hong Kong people can not only share to the late Dr. Luo Guixiang Collection of the life business results, more committed to contribute to the promotion of Chinese tea fashion.

Scenic Area Address: Hong Kong Salisbury Road, Yau Tsim Mong District comb No. 10

Car lines: 1, the TST subway station from E / J / K / L3 may reach the outlet; 2, in a ring or by Wanchai Star Ferry to TST, about 10 minutes walk