Overcoming challenges brought on by pro-democracy protests and the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hong Kong Palace Museum opens to the general public as we speak, three years after development started.
The museum is one in all a number of new museums worldwide that opened or are scheduled to open this yr.
The Hong Kong Palace Museum opened its doorways July 2. (Photograph by Li Zhihua/China Information Service through … [+]
Greater than 900 objects — most on mortgage from a like-named museum in Beijing — will probably be on show on the Palace Museum. Situated on the waterfront within the West Kowloon Cultural District, the museum will allow guests to “discover Chinese language artwork and tradition by way of a brand new lens,” in line with the museum’s web site.
In Norway, the most important artwork museum within the Nordic nations — containing greater than 400,000 objects — opened final month in Oslo. The National Museum says guests can “expertise older and fashionable artwork, modern artwork, structure and design below one roof and in utterly new methods.”
In Egypt, the Grand Egyptian Museum is scheduled to open in November adjoining to the Pyramids exterior Cairo. The museum, housing greater than 100,000 objects, would be the largest archaeological museum complicated on the earth, in line with John Navarre, the editor of EgyptTravelBlog.com. For the primary time, King Tut’s complete treasure assortment will probably be on show, in addition to pre-historic artifacts.
On Nov. 15 in New York, the Museum of Broadway is scheduled to open in Occasions Sq..
“Consider the Museum of Broadway as an immersive, experiential option to inform Broadway’s story utilizing artwork and expertise,” the museum’s web site says. “We’ve introduced collectively a staff of internationally famend artists, designers & historians — each from Broadway & the experiential world — to design the museum. It is going to be academic however informed in a enjoyable, accessible, brightly coloured manner.”
Artifacts are displayed on the archive wall on the Bob Dylan Heart in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (AP … [+]
In Might, the Bob Dylan Center with greater than 100,000 objects opened in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The objects embody essays, poems, liner notes, correspondence, philosophical musings and images.
The International African American Museum, which had been scheduled to open this yr in Charleston, South Carolina, has introduced a Jan, 21, 2023, opening date. The museum’s African Ancestors Memorial Backyard is situated “the place so many captive Africans first set foot in America,” the museum’s web site says.
Exhibitions inside “will share untold tales utilizing traditional strategies, in addition to new approaches pushed by innovation, expertise and digital interactivity,” the web site says. “Themes will embody connections throughout the African diaspora, the unfold of African American tradition and affect and the actions for justice and equality.”
