the British Museum Comes to Hong Kong
Friday, September 7, 2007 by Eva.Usermaatre
Super great news, there will be an Exhibition in Hong Kong Museum of Art whose treasures are form the most great museum-British Museum. Since so far I have no change of going to England, it will not hurt to see an Exhibition earlier. Besides Featuring about 270 artifacts including sculptures, paintings, jewellery, porcelain and stone artifacts that have been collected from five continents of the world by the British Museum since it was founded in 1753, this exhibition covers a vast span of time from 2 million years ago to the present day. Diverse cultures including ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece, as well as artistic styles of European, African, American and Asian art are explored. Highlight items include an Egyptian wooden mummy-board “The Unlucky Mummy” of the early 22nd dynasty, 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” from about 2600-2400 BC found in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, and a walrus ivory chess-piece made in about 1150-1200 and found in Scotland.
Thank Amun-Re.
