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Opening of the Hong Kong Palace Museum|Hong Kong side expects to cooperate with Taipei Palace Museum Taiwan side: no invitation or contact

2022-07-02T01:09:27.813Z


The Hong Kong Palace Museum opened to the public today (2nd), and 914 national treasures officially debuted. There are Palace Museums/Houses on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places. The board of directors and management of the West Kowloon Cultural District recently stated that they hope to cooperate with each other in the future.


The Hong Kong Palace Museum opened to the public today (2nd), and 914 national treasures officially debuted.

There are Palace Museums/Houses in the three places on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The board of directors and management of the West Kowloon Cultural District recently stated that they hope to cooperate with the Taipei Palace Museum in the future. Director Wu Zhihua emphasized that culture has no political label.


However, when the Taipei Palace Museum responded to the inquiries of "Hong Kong 01", it said that it had not yet received an invitation or contact from the Hong Kong Palace Museum for cooperation, emphasizing that "only on the premise of equality and dignity can there be room for communication or cooperation."



【Hong Kong Palace Museum Opening Series No. 8】


▼Sneak Peek at the Opening of the Forbidden City in Hong Kong ▼


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Feng Chengshuyi: If the exhibits of the three Forbidden City are displayed side by side, it will be very shocking

The Hong Kong Palace Museum has already chosen a date to open on June 22, and will officially open to the public on July 2.

Chen Zhisi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, said earlier that he hoped to cooperate with the Taipei Palace Museum in the future; Feng Cheng Shuyi, Chief Executive Officer of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, quoted Wu Zhihua, Director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, as saying that the two museums in Hong Kong and Taipei have maintained work in the past. Contact, "But it has been temporarily suspended in recent years." She pointed out that if the exhibits of the Forbidden City on both sides of the strait were displayed side by side, "it would be a shocking scene."

Hong Kong Palace Museum curator: Culture has no political label

The director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, Wu Zhihua, said in an interview with the media recently that the Hong Kong Palace Museum and the Taipei Palace Museum have space for cooperation, and the Beijing Palace Museum and the Taipei Palace Museum have also cooperated in the past, and even the collections of the Beijing Palace Museum were exhibited in Taiwan. It is also not ruled out that there are political environment issues to be dealt with.” He recently attended the opening series of the Hong Kong Palace Museum and said that culture has no political label, and hopes that the Palace Museum of the two sides of the strait can cooperate.

The Hong Kong Palace Museum was established in December 2016, with a donation of 3.5 billion yuan from the Jockey Club Charitable Trust Fund.

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The National Palace Museum in Taipei stated that it has not yet received an invitation or contact from the Hong Kong Palace Museum for cooperation.

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The National Palace Museum in Taipei: Only cooperate on the premise of equality and dignity

At the end of May and on the opening day, "Hong Kong 01" asked the National Palace Museum in Taipei about the cooperation space between Hong Kong and Taiwan, including the exchange of exhibits, the signing of a memorandum of cooperation or cooperation in curating, etc., and whether the Hong Kong Palace Museum has issued a cooperation invitation, etc.

However, the National Palace Museum in Taiwan replied that it has not received any invitation or contact for cooperation, activities, etc. to the Palace Museum in Hong Kong.

The National Palace Museum in Taiwan also stated that it has learned from the media that the activities handled by the Hong Kong Palace Museum involve the participation of retirees from the museum. "The National Palace Museum solemnly declares that the participation of retired or resigned personnel is only for their personal behavior, and of course they cannot represent the hospital." It shows that the Hong Kong Palace Museum invited Deng Shuping, the former director of the Taipei Palace Museum’s Artifacts Department, and He Chuanxin, the former deputy director of the Taipei Palace Museum, as online lecture speakers last year.

Director of the National Palace Museum in Taipei: Be cautious about the possibility of exchanges with Hong Kong

According to Taiwan media reports, the director of the Taipei Palace Museum, Wu Micha, denied any connection with the Hong Kong Palace Museum in October last year. Wu Micha said at the time that the Taipei Palace Museum originally had exchanges with the Beijing Palace Museum, based on mutual equality and purely academic and cultural exchanges. However, since he took office, the two museums have not exchanged views.

As for the possibility of cooperation with the Hong Kong Palace Museum, he emphasized that he will uphold the same attitude, abide by the government's policies without any political premise, and be cautious about the possibility of exchanges between the two sides. There is no difference, so we can't treat it as a free Hong Kong."

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The Louvre Museum in Paris lends 13 treasures for the opening exhibition of the Hong Kong Palace Museum

One of the purposes of the Hong Kong Palace Museum also includes promoting dialogue with world civilizations. At the end of May, "Hong Kong 01" asked a number of foreign museums whether they had received an invitation to cooperate with the Hong Kong Palace Museum. The British Museum replied at the time that it had not received the opening of the Hong Kong Palace Museum. As for the other museums, including the Musée Guimet in France, the Museum of Modern Art in the United States, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the United States, etc., as of the deadline No reply before.

The opening exhibition of the Palace Museum in Hong Kong will feature 13 treasures lent by the Louvre in Paris.

The museum also revealed earlier that it will launch the "Liechtenstein Royal Collection Exhibition" in November this year, and is also negotiating cooperation with other museums.

▼The Hong Kong Palace Museum opens on July 2 and will see some national first-class cultural relics and treasures▼


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Source: hk1

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