The Hong Kong Museum of Art announced on Wednesday that it will
hold an exhibition which provide the public with a rare opportunity
to view some 270 artifacts selected from the British Museum.
Running from Sept. 14 to Dec. 2, the exhibition entitled
Treasures of the World's Cultures from the British Museum, will
feature about 270 artifacts covering a vast span of time from two
million years ago to the present day.
The exhibits include sculptures, ceramics, wood carvings,
jewelry, drawings and prints selected to give visitors a glimpse of
the diversified arts and cultures of ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece,
the Middle East, Africa, India, Japan, Korea, America and
Oceania.
Highlight items include an Egyptian wooden mummy-board "The
Unlucky Mummy" of early 22nd Dynasty dated about 945 BC; a 13th
century Egyptian brass "Astrolabe" with silver inlay, a marble
Roman statue of Dionysos of 2nd century; a "Queen's lyre" of about
2600-2400 BC found in the Royal Cemetery at Ur; a walrus ivory
chess-piece made in about 1150-1200 and found in Scotland, a
portrait-head of Euripides, the leading playwright of Classical
Athens, and a nude man drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
The exhibition is jointly presented by the Leisure and Cultural
Services Department of Hong Kong and the Trustees of the British
Museum.
Officiating at Wednesday's press conference also included
Director of Leisure and Cultural Services of Hong Kong Thomas Chow,
British Consul-General of Hong Kong Stephen Bradley and some other
guests.
The exhibition had also been displayed in Beijing and Taiwan
before moving to Hong Kong which will be the last leg.
(Xinhua News Agency September 6, 2007)
