Hong Kong Palace Museum

Beijing's Palace Museum has teamed with Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District Authority to construct a museum of Chinese art, history, and culture in Hong Kong, where remnants of a pro-democracy movement are fading. This is the Palace Museum's first partnership outside of China. The seven-story Hong Kong Palace Museum on the Victoria Harbour waterfront, which is set to open in July, will have nearly 82,000 square feet of exhibit space and hundreds of Palace artifacts (some of which have never been publicly displayed), ranging from ancient Chinese jade to rare manuscripts, as well as contemporary works.

The museum's architecture is a mix of classic and contemporary forms, as well as old Chinese art and the urban setting of Hong Kong. It also has a central core of three glass atriums, each one atop the other, with views of the harbor; the architectural feature is a tribute to the central axis of the Forbidden City, which is also the major axis of Beijing.

Address: West Kowloon Cultural District, 8 Museum Drive, Kowloon
Website: hkpm.org.hk