Palace Museum launches ‘Pop-Up Digital Experience’

The exhibition “FLASH! The Palace Museum - A Pop-Up Digital Experience” was launched on Friday at Tai Kwun and will run until January 31. It is the museum’s first pop-up exhibition in Hong Kong to showcase its architecture and artifacts through modern technology.

The exhibition, supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club, exclusively sponsored by the Institute of Philanthropy and organized by the Palace Museum and in partnership with Tai Kwun, is free of charge with no registration required.

The exhibition is one of the activities under the “With you. Then. Now. Always.” campaign in celebration of the HKJC’s 140th anniversary.

The exhibition vividly introduces the architecture and artifacts of the former palace through interactive multimedia technology. Visitors can immerse themselves in a cultural journey to appreciate the unique artistic charm of the Palace Museum, exploring the wisdom and exemplary traditional Chinese culture it represents.

It also provides the public and tourists with an opportunity to experience the palace’s culture at close range, while also promoting cultural exchange between Hong Kong and the Mainland.

Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law expressed her gratitude to the HKJC and the Institute of Philanthropy for supporting the exhibition.

She said the exhibition presents Chinese culture as embodied by the Palace Museum in digital form, infusing new vitality into traditional culture.

Highlights of the exhibition include: “Four Seasons at The Palace Museum”, which uses digital technology to reveal the beauty of the Gate of Imperial Supremacy (Huangji men), the main entrance to the Palace of Tranquil Longevity (Ningshou gong), across all four seasons; “Impression of the Corner Tower”, which uses virtual reality (VR) to bring to life the construction and painting process of the four Corner Towers of the Forbidden City, which applies the unique architectural feature of “nine beams, eighteen columns, and seventy-two ridges”; and the contemporary digital imagery of “A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains”, the sole surviving work by Northern Song dynasty painter Wang Ximeng which is revitalized for the exhibition. 
 

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