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Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong is a museum in Hong Kong, located within the Chinese University Of Hong Kong.
The Museum serves the community by collecting, preserving, researching and exhibiting a wide range of artifacts illuminating the rich arts, humanities and cultural heritage of ancient and pre-modern China. The Museum promotes the excellence of both its permanent collection and loan collections of Chinese art and their use for scholarly endeavours and outreach efforts.
As a university teaching museum, it offers in-depth practice of museology and teaching of art history and heritage through direct and sustained access to original Chinese works of at by collaborating with the Department of Fine Arts. With different University faculties it advocates interdisciplinary approaches to the social, cultural, technological and historical context of Chinese art. Founded in 1971, the Art Museum has been taking an active role in achieving the objectives of the University in promoting Chinese culture and heritage.
Starting from nothing, the entire collection now comprises over twelve thousand items. The acquisition of the late Mr. Jian Youwen’s collection in 1973, which consisted of over one thousand items of Ming, Qing and modern Guangdong pieces, formed the core of the Art Museum’s painting and calligraphy collection.
Since then, gifts from generous donors have continuously augmented the holdings, including works from the Song and Yuan to modern periods. Since the inception of the Art Museum, Chinese epigraphy and rubbings have been its major objectives in acquisition and research.
In particular, the Museum has representative research collections of diversified themes, including ancient seals, epigraphic specimens, rubbings, paintings and calligraphy by renowned masters, wood and bamboo slips of Qin and Han times, and export ceramics. These collections have attained recognition at international levels.
The Art Museum organizes thematic exhibitions that cover a broad spectrum of Chinese art, including paintings, calligraphy, a great variety of art objects and latest archaeological findings. Thematic exhibitions are frequently organized in cooperation with museums in mainland China, and with collectors’ societies and private collectors in Hong Kong.
Hence, rarely seen but important collections of Chinese art are made available to visitors so as to enhance their virtuosity and to promote the appreciation of Chinese art and culture. Special exhibitions to introduce the Museum’s permanent collection are also regularly organized.
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