The Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation is joining hands with the Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation and the Hong Kong Palace Museum on Art Journey for Youth at HKPM, a multi-year partnership through which 50,000 special exhibition tickets will be distributed to primary and secondary school students in Hong Kong each year, providing our next generations with an immersive cultural experience and helping them appreciate Chinese arts and culture.
More than 900 artefacts, on loan from the Palace Museum in Beijing, are on display at the Hong Kong Palace Museum. The cultural gems range from grade-one cultural objects, paintings and calligraphy to ceramics, jade, costumes and textiles, jewellery and rare books, many of which are being exhibited in Hong Kong for the first time. There will be workshops for young talents to learn more about Chinese history, architecture and culture at the world-class museum.
‘We are honoured to work with Hong Kong’s world-class museum to promote the appreciation of Chinese arts and culture. We hope that by providing our young people with eye-opening opportunities to experience national cultural treasures first-hand, they can expand their horizons, appreciate the national culture and foster a sense of unity.’
— Daryl Ng, Director, Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation and Chairman,
Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation
To deepen appreciation of Chinese culture and foster a sense of identity, the Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation will launch the Beijing-Hong Kong Cultural Appreciation Programme, through which 50 local university and college students will be hosted to the Palace Museum and other historic buildings in Beijing annually. The programme is comprised of workshops with museum professionals at the Palace of Prolonging Happiness (Yanxi Gong) on heritage research and artefact conservation. Students will have the opportunity to visit Lingzhao Belvedere of Yanxi Gong, the only Western-style architecture in the Forbidden Palace, and appreciate how traditional Chinese forms of arts and architecture blend with Western styles, while learning about management of relics and intercultural dialogues that celebrate harmony and diversity.
Meanwhile, the Group has been supporting M+ on a three-year M+ Primary School Programme, benefitting up to 4,000 primary school students a year through visiting Hong Kong’s world-class visual culture museum and participating in educator-led tours and workshops. The programme provides students with diverse learning experiences to discover how art and design, museum collections and society are closely related to our daily lives, developing their abilities in culture and creativity.
The Hong Kong Palace Museum is exhibiting more than 900 artefacts from the Palace Museum in Beijing. The Art Journey for Youth at HKPM programme will enable students to widen their horizons and deepen appreciation of Chinese arts and culture.
