Hong Kong Palace Museum, Museum in West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong Palace Museum is a history and art museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District, occupying about 10,000 square metres across six floors. Its inverted-trapezoid building, designed by Rocco Yim, has a bronze-brown ridged facade overhanging a dark glass base. Inside are nine galleries (7,600 square metres), a 400-seat theatre, activity rooms, a gift shop and restaurants.

The institution opened on July 3, 2022, to mark the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China, after construction work had started in April 2019. Collaboration with the Forbidden City in Beijing enabled the transfer of art treasures rarely seen outside mainland China before.

The museum's name links it to the Palace Museum in Beijing's Forbidden City, whose collection it borrows rather than owns. Galleries 1 to 7 are permanent, and the entrance door copies the vermilion studded doors of the Forbidden City. The first major donation, 946 pieces of ancient Chinese gold and silver from the Mengdiexuan collection, became part of the museum's own holdings.

The museum sits at 8 Museum Road on the western waterfront of the West Kowloon Cultural District, reached on foot from Kowloon station or the nearby M+ building. Opening hours are 10 am to 6 pm on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, and 10 am to 8 pm on Friday, Saturday and public holidays. It closes all day on Tuesdays except public holidays, and on the first two days of Lunar New Year. Bags pass through X-ray screening; large backpacks, long umbrellas and wheeled luggage are not allowed inside and must go to one of three paid storage counters.

The architecture draws inspiration from traditional Chinese bronze vessels called ding and the boat-shaped yuanbao silver ingots, yet blends these forms with glass and concrete elements from the present day. Several inner courtyards create naturally lit zones between exhibition floors, adding calm transitional spaces to the modern structure.