University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong

Inside Fung Ping Shan Buildling - The Balcony
Fung Ping Shan Building
Annie Wong Gallery in the Fung Ping Shan Building (Bronx Room)
Freta Yee-Man Ho Gallery in Fung Ping Shan Building (Chinese Furniture)

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:

- 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)

Recent exhibition

Upcoming exhibition

Transportation

to the East Gate of the Hong Kong University on Bonham Road

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

References

  1. ↑ Antiquities and Monuments Office: List of the Historic Buildings in Building Assessment (as of 22 March 2011)
  2. ↑ Antiquities and Monuments Office: Brief Information on Proposed Grade 1 Items. Item #143
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