The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) has partnered with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to launch a major new exhibition titled Treasures of Global Jewellery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Body Transformed.
The show traces nearly 4,000 years of global jewellery history and will run from today until 19 October.
Approximately 200 jewellery pieces from the Met’s collection, spanning five continents from the second millennium BCE to the 21st century, will be displayed. This marks both the Met’s first major travelling exhibition of its global jewellery collection, and the first time most of these pieces have been exhibited in Hong Kong.
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Organised into five thematic sections, the exhibition explores what jewellery is and why humans wear it. Highlights include a late 19th-century Indian marriage necklace, a René-Jules Lalique necklace from around 1897–1899, and ancient Egyptian gold sandals and toe stalls from the reign of Thutmose III from about 1479–1425 BCE.
In addition to pieces from The Met, the exhibition also features works from the HKPM’s Mengdiexuan Collection, the Chris Hall Collection, and the Illuminata Collection.Admission requires a special exhibition ticket, priced at HK$150 for adults and HK$75 for children aged 7 to 11, senior citizens aged 60 or above, persons with disabilities and full-time students.
