Children can enter the museum for free! Adults are free on Wednesdays

After visiting Sky100 to enjoy the beautiful scenery, you can go to the West Kowloon Cultural District next to it to visit the Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Palace Museum, which took 4 years to build! The Hong Kong Palace Museum and M+ echo each other. Their design concept is a fusion of Chinese and Western, ancient and modern times. It not only retains the modern characteristics of Hong Kong, but also inherits China's excellent traditional culture.

The Hong Kong Palace Museum will exhibit 914 loaned collections from the Palace Museum in phases, including 166 first-class cultural relics at the level of national treasures. Some of the collections have never been publicly exhibited. The museum now offers free admission to permanent exhibition halls 1 to 7 every Wednesday, and children aged 6 or under can enter for free.

Permanent exhibition halls include: (free)
Exhibition Hall 1️⃣ Forbidden City: Introducing the Forbidden City, architecture, collections and cultural heritage of the Qing Dynasty
Exhibition Hall 2️⃣One Day in the Forbidden City: Introducing the court life of ten emperors and more than twenty queens in the Qing Dynasty
Exhibition Hall 3️⃣Ningshiweiqi: Exhibition of imperial porcelain collections from the Ming and Qing dynasties, status and taste
Exhibition Hall 4️⃣Dragon Face and Phoenix Appearance: exhibits portraits of Qing Dynasty emperors and empresses, their court robes, and Qing Dynasty sacrificial rituals
Hall 5️⃣ Seeking Innovation: Exhibits the design, production and use of traditional Chinese crafts, and their impact on contemporary design concepts and cultural life
Gallery 6️⃣ Enjoy together: Introducing more than a century of Chinese art collection in Hong Kong and the development of local museums
Exhibition Hall 7️⃣Boundless Past and Present: Reinterpreting and reproducing the Forbidden City culture from the perspective of modern art

Special Exhibition Hall: (charges apply)
Exhibition Hall 8️⃣ National Treasures: Thirty-five pieces of calligraphy and painting from the Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties are exhibited, exploring the reasons why they have been passed down through the ages from the perspectives of art, culture and history
Hall 9️⃣ Galloping Across the World: Over 100 artifacts from the Palace Museum and the Louvre, including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, etc., are on display to learn about the role of horses in history, art, military affairs, and politics, as well as the cultural significance they contain

Shawn wore vintage clothes to visit and take photos that day and stayed for more than three hours. There are also coffee shops and Chinese and Western restaurants near the Forbidden City. It is recommended to arrange the itinerary like this 👉🏻

Stop 1: Exhibition Halls 1, 2 and 4, which show the life of the Ming and Qing courts. There are many interactive games and movies to watch, which is suitable for children to visit. There are also many check-in and photo spots.

Stop 2: The paid special exhibition halls 8 and 9 on the top floor. Each person can enter once with a ticket. There are many authentic paintings and calligraphy by famous artists that are exhibited for the first time in the past 10-30 years. It is worth seeing

Stop 3: You can take your time to visit the 3rd, 5th and 7th exhibition halls. It won’t be a pity if you can’t finish them all.

Hong Kong Palace Museum
📍Address: 8 Museum Road, West Kowloon Cultural District, Kowloon
🕙Time: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday 10:00-18:00; Friday, Saturday, and public holidays 10:00-20:00

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