Ancient Egyptian treasures are coming to Hong Kong in this special exhibition
From mid-November onwards, the Hong Kong Palace Museum will host the 'Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums' exhibition. Our museum has signed an agreement with the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt to bring 250 priceless artefacts from seven major museums in Egypt, including the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the Luxor Museum of the Ancient Egyptian Art, the Suez National Museum, and the Sohag National Museum. There will also be recent discoveries from Saqqara, a royal burial ground and the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis, that will be on display.
Visitors can expect to see statues of pharaohs and deities, gold ornaments, stone sculptures, large-scale coffins and sarcophagi, animal mummies, and more, dating from up to 7,300 years ago and representing over 5,000 years of history from this ancient civilisation. All of the artefacts in this exhibition are on display in Hong Kong for the first time, and many of them have never even been shown outside Egypt before, so it's sure to be a feast for any history buff.
Among the four themed sections, don't miss the monumental stature of the legendary boy pharaoh Tutankhamun measuring over 2.8 metres tall; a statue of the cat-headed goddess Bastet; and a colossal statue of Akhenaten, Tutankhamun's father and the ruler famous for trying to unite the worship of Egypt's multiple gods under one solar deity Aten.
'Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums' will run for an unprecedented nine and a half months from mid-November. Ticketing details and accompanying events like performances and workshops will be announced in August.
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