文物館 Art Museum

When The Chinese University of Hong Kong was founded in 1963, Chinese studies became the flagship program of the university. As China’s artistic legacy and material culture were central to understanding Chinese civilization, the university’s first Vice-Chancellor Prof. Choh-ming Li had the vision to build a university museum that would provide a platform for learning from cultural relics. Towards that end, the late philanthropist Dr. J.S. Lee of Bei Shan Tang provided critical guidance and support, and the duo recruited the Oxford-educated James Watt, who, at the time, was serving as a curator at the City Hall Museum and Art Gallery (later Hong Kong Museum of Art), to direct the museum. Designed by Dr. Szeto Wai and Mr. I.M. Pei at the behest of Dr. Lee, the centrally located museum opened in fall 1971 in the heart of the main campus, next to the university administrative building and university library. To this date, it is rare to find a museum that occupies a comparably central posit

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