Hong Kong Palace Museum

This guide to the Hong Kong Palace Museum follows the golden, cauldron-shaped building that rose on the Kowloon waterfront in the week of the handover's twenty-fifth anniversary in 2022, and the nine hundred-plus Forbidden City treasures on loan from Beijing inside it, including pieces never before shown in public. It traces architect Rocco Yim's design, built around the ancient fangding vessels used to commune with ancestors, and the argument that broke out when the museum was announced in 2016 without public consultation. Listen for what a protest leader told reporters the building brought to mind.