University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong
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University Museum and Art Gallery (Chinese: 香港大學美術博物館) (UMAG) is located at 90 Bonham Road, next to the University of Hong Kong's east gate entrance. Fung Ping Shan Building houses the Museum while the lower three storeys of the T T Tsui Building houses the Art Gallery. The two buildings are joined by a bridge.
The Fung Ping Shan Building was graded as a Grade II Historic Building in 1981 and is now a Grade I Historic Building.[1]
History
University Museum and Art Gallery was established in 1953. It is the oldest museum in Hong Kong.
The three-storey Fung Ping Shan Museum was originally built for a Chinese book library in 1932. Named after its donor (Fung Ping Shan), the building consists of masonry on the ground level surmounted by a two-storey red-brick structure with applied ornamental pilasters topped by a prominent pediment over its entrance.
It was a dormitory used by the First-aid Station of Air Defence at Mid-levels Section E in 1941[2]
Since 1963, the Fung Ping Shan library building was converted into the Fung Ping Shan Museum of Chinese art and archaeology. In 1996, the lowest three floors of the new T. T. Tsui Building were extended to the old building to form the nowadays "University Museum and Art Gallery".
Collections & Temporary Exhibitions
The University Museum and Art Gallery houses Chinese antiquities, notably bronzes, ceramics, paintings and wood carving that have been built over the past sixty years through acquisition and donation. Among the highlights of the collection are an early blue-and-white water pot and the world's largest collection of Nestorian plaques. The comprehensive collection has examples dating from the Neolithic period to the Qing dynasty. The bronze collection includes works from the Shang to the Tang_dynasty and the largest collection of Yuan dynasty Nestorian crosses in the world. The Museum also has a number of carvings in jade, wood and stone and a collection of Chinese oil paintings. In recent years, the Museum has also been collecting historical photographs of Hong Kong and items of popular culture.
In addition to these permanent collections, the UMAG regularly hosts exhibitions of contemporary and ancient art. These include:
- Ingenious Iceland : Twentieth-Century Icelandic Paintings from the Anthony J. Hardy Collection (11 September to 24 November 2013)
- Sandro Botticelli’s Venus : Italian Renaissance Masterpiece Painting (18 October to 15 December 2013)
- From Photography to Music: a Creative Dialogue between David Clarke and Chan Hing-yan (13 November to 1 December 2013)
- Embroidered Identities: Ornately Decorated Textiles and Accessories of Chinese Ethnic Minorities (15 December 2013 to 9 February 2014)- Exhibition extends to 16 February 2014
- Six Decades of Acquisition, Chinese Figure Painting Collection Highlights (28 January to 31 March 2014)
- Surviving Evil: The Pictorial Language of Sara Atzmon (26 February to 4 May 2014)
- Lasting Fragrance: Chinese Ink Paintings by Chow Chian-chiu and Chow Leung Chen-ying (9 April to 22 June 2014)
- Carlos Cruz-Diez: Circumstance and Ambiguity of Colour (24 May to 17 August 2014)
- The Tank Man and the Changing Art and Craft of Photojournalism (3 to 29 June 2014)
- Refuse the Shadows of the Past: 5 Years Austria Art Made in China (4 July - 24 August 2014)
- Picasso Ceramics (3 September - 2 November 2014)
- QU4RTETS (11 September - 26 October 2014)
- A Universe Within: Suo Zhenhai's Inside-painted Snuff Bottles (24 September - 2 November 2014)
- Conforming to Vicinity - A Cross-Strait Four-Region Artistic Exchange Project 2014:
- Macau: Macao Museum of Art (27 March – 27 April 2014) - Ended
- Taiwan: Pingtung Art Museum (16 May – 6 July 2014)
- Shenzhen: He Xiangning Art Museum (26 July – 26 October 2014)
- Hong Kong: University Museum and Art Gallery of The University of Hong Kong (14 November 2014 – 1 February 2015)
- Silent Poetry: Chinese Contemporary Ink (11 February - 17 March 15) - Exhibition extends to 2 April 2015
- Desiring the Real: Contemporary Austrian Art (18 February - 22 March 15)
- Vernacular: Liu Qinghe in Hong Kong (17 Apr - 24 May 15)
- Being-there: Works by Chen Shuxia (17 Apr - 24 May 15)
- Alberto Reguera: Blue Expansive Landscape (5 Jun - 23 Aug 15)
- Sèvres: Porcelain of the Kings (10 Jun - 16 Aug 15)
- Mountains Ablaze: The Republic and the Sino Japanese War (1912-1946) (4 Sep - 25 Nov 15)
- Mexican Big Bang: Paintings by Roberto Turnbull (9 Sep - 29 Nov 15)
- Erich Lessing: The Pulse of Time—Capturing Social Change in Post-war Europe (27 Nov 2015 – 14 February 16)
- Illustrious Illuminations: Christian Manuscripts from the High Gothic to the High Renaissance (1250-1540) (11 Dec 15 – 28 Feb 16)
Recent exhibition
- Nestorian Crosses of the Yuan Dynasty (From 10 Jun 15 onwards)
- Nature in its harmonious forms: Paintings by Tao Wan (20 Jan - 21 Feb 16)
- Chen Xi: So We Remember (2 Mar - 15 May 16)
- The Art of Takashi Wakamiya: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer (18 Mar - 19 Jun 16)
- Sayed and Ghada (23 Mar - 17 Apr 16) - Exhibit at 1/F Chi Wah Learning Commons, Centennial Campus, HKU
Upcoming exhibition
Transportation
- By Bus: Bus No. 3B, 23, 40, 40M, 103
- By Mini Bus: Mini Bus No.8, 10, 10A, 22, 22S, 28, 31
to the East Gate of the Hong Kong University on Bonham Road
- By MTR: HKU Station (Exit A1)
The University of Hong Kong Museum Society
The University of Hong Kong Museum Society was established in 1988 to support UMAG's exhibitions as well as art and educational programmes for the community.
See also
- The University of Hong Kong
- Tsui Museum of Art (former museum)
References
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