The Origins of Chinese Civilisation

Opening just ahead of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the PRC, the Hong Kong Palace Museum launches this special exhibition which explores the origins and development of Chinese civilisation through artefacts that span over 4,000 through history. The result of two decades of comprehensive national-level research and large-scale archaeological surveys, this exhibition showcases just under 110 treasures spanning the Neolithic period to the Xia dynasty loaned to Hong Kong from 14 major cultural institutions – including 16 grade-one national treasures. Almost all these loans are displayed in our city for the first time.

Among the jades, stone sculptures, ceramics, bone and bronze objects, and more, keep an eye out for a cloud-shaped jade plaque, a stone sculpture from the Shimao archaeological site, and a jade dragon from the Hongshan culture which is believed to be one of the earliest objects to bear the motif of a dragon in China.

Tickets to this exhibition are priced at $100 for adults, with concession prices available. There is also the Full Access Ticket which costs $180 and grants access to ‘The Adorned Body’ exhibition as well as other thematic exhibitions within HKPM on the same day.