The Power of Curation: Creating Innovative Exhibitions at the Hong Kong Palace Museum
CHC
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Date
08 Apr 2024
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Organiser
Department of Chinese History and Culture
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Time
17:30 - 18:40
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Venue
PolyU HJ 303 and Zoom
Speaker
Dr. Daisy Yiyou Wang
Summary
The Palace Museum, often known as the Forbidden City, was established in 1925. Ninety-seven years later, the Hong Kong Palace Museum opened to the public with a suite of seven spectacular opening exhibitions featuring treasures from the Forbidden City. After the opening, the Hong Kong Palace Museum presented nine new exhibitions.
How did our teams from the Hong Kong Palace Museum and the Palace Museum curate these scholarly yet accessible exhibitions and explore new ways of looking at Chinese art and culture, and cultural exchanges between China and the world? Topics examined in this talk include curatorial methodology, collaboration, cultural exchange, as well as tradition and Innovation.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Daisy Yiyou Wang
Dr. Daisy Yiyou Wang leads the Hong Kong Palace Museum’s curation, research, exhibition planning and management, collection, conservation, publication, design, and learning programmes. Dr. Wang has served as Chinese Art Specialist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art and Curator of Chinese and East Asian Art at the Peabody Essex Museum. A specialist of the history of art collecting, Ming lacquer, and Qing imperial portraiture and textile, Dr. Wang has published internationally and received numerous awards, including a Getty Museum Leadership Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, and a Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award. Dr. Wang co-curated the ground-breaking exhibition Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, which was named the “Most Influential International Exhibition from Chinese Museums” in 2019 and the “Best Thematic/Historical Show” in 2018 by the Boston Globe. She co-edited this exhibition ’s catalogue , which received the Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Prize. A leader in international museum professional exchange, she has served as the founding Chair of the American Alliance of Museum’s China Program.
