17th October 2025 – (Hong Kong) A major cultural exhibition featuring 250 ancient Egyptian artefacts is scheduled to open at the Hong Kong Palace Museum later this year. “Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums” will run from 20th November 2025 until 31st August 2026, representing the most extensive and prolonged display of its kind ever staged in Hong Kong.
The exhibition is organised in collaboration with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, which is the sole owner and lender of all items. The collection includes objects sourced from seven Egyptian museums, including the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the Luxor Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art. For the first time, Hong Kong will exhibit museum artefacts and recent archaeological discoveries directly loaned from Egypt, with many items never before shown outside their home country.
The exhibition is structured across four thematic sections that guide visitors through millennia of ancient Egyptian history. “The Land of the Pharaohs” will explore the civilisation’s royal leadership, religious beliefs, and daily life through statues of pharaohs including Senusret I, Hatshepsut, and Rameses II. This section will also display funerary objects such as painted wooden coffins, canopic jars, and amulets that illustrate ancient Egyptian concepts of the afterlife.
Two dedicated sections will focus on landmark archaeological discoveries. “The World of Tutankhamun” will feature artefacts connected to the legendary boy pharaoh, including a quartzite head of Queen Nefertiti and gold jewellery from the New Kingdom period. “The Secrets of Saqqara” will present recent finds from the vast Memphis necropolis, including painted anthropoid coffins and animal mummies, uncovered during excavations that began in 2020.
A final section, “Ancient Egypt and the World,” will examine cross-cultural exchanges between ancient Egypt and other civilisations. This part of the exhibition will include mummy masks incorporating Greco-Roman stylistic elements and will conclude with a review of Sino-Egyptian archaeological collaboration, timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations in 2026.
The visitor experience will be enhanced by more than ten multimedia installations employing 3D modelling and projection mapping. These digital presentations will include dynamic displays of the mummification process and a digitally restored representation of the historically damaged statue of Tutankhamun. Museum officials have confirmed that all multimedia presentations are entirely non-intrusive to preserve the original artefacts.
Tickets for the special exhibition will be available for purchase from 10am on 22nd October through the museum’s website and various ticketing platforms. Special Access Tickets, priced at HK$190 for adults, grant entry to all thematic exhibitions in Galleries 1–7 plus the special exhibition in Gallery 9. The museum will also offer family ticket combos with discounts of up to twenty per cent and a special “Blind Box + Full Access Flex Ticket” combo package.
The Hong Kong Palace Museum will supplement the exhibition with a series of educational programmes, including interactive workshops, public talks, and performing arts events. New and returning members of the HKPM Friends programme will receive special edition collectables, with new members joining before 2nd November eligible for a private preview of the exhibition on 19 November.
