Hong Kong Palace Museum
Museum of imperial Chinese art holding nine hundred-plus Forbidden City treasures in a fangding-inspired waterfront building.
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This guide to the Hong Kong Palace Museum starts with an activist's blunt reaction to a building announced in December 2016 without public consultation, and with the Forbidden City treasures it was designed to hold. Along the way you'll look at the golden waterfront facade and the bronze cauldron shapes behind it, and at a small Northern Song pottery pillow that an emperor once wrote poems about. Best heard on the harbour promenade outside, facing the building.
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