Hong Kong Palace Museum’s Egyptian exhibition ‘just the start’ of collaborations
‘We are speaking about everything, we are open to everything, in order to do collaboration,’ the custodian of Egyptian relics says
A coming Hong Kong Palace Museum exhibition displaying Egyptian relics, including a Tutankhamen statue and feline mummies, is just the beginning of plans for further collaborations and events, the custodian of the African nation’s treasures has said.
Dr Mohamed Ismail Khaled, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, also told the Post that it would not rule out displaying other notable artefacts and mummies in Hong Kong.
The council and the museum, located in the West Kowloon Cultural District, earlier signed an agreement to host the city’s largest and longest-running exhibition of artefacts from the country, with 250 exhibits to go on display from November 20.
The event, titled “Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums”, will run until August 31, 2026.
The agreement has paved the way for the first collaboration between a Hong Kong museum and the Supreme Council of Antiquities, with both sides describing the move as the starting point for more joint efforts.
“We were discussing today [about] future collaborations from different themes and also different artefacts that will be allowed to travel [from Egypt], or maybe new discoveries,” he said on Thursday.