Hong Kong's M+ Museum holds preview of opening displays(1/7)

This photo taken on Nov. 11, 2021, shows the M+ Museum in West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. (Photo: China News Service/Li Zhihua)

The M+ Museum, billed as "Asia's first global museum of contemporary visual culture" located in West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong, held a preview of the opening displays on Thursday. The museum’s opening displays included six thematic exhibitions drawn from different areas of strength in the M+ Collections, featuring visual artworks, moving image works, design objects, architectural projects and archival items from M+ Collections, which the museum has been building since 2012.

Told through individual and collective histories, "Hong Kong: Here and Beyond" captures the city’s transformation from the post-war decades to the present day. Things, Spaces, Interactions presents more than 500 examples of furniture, architecture, graphic arts, and other design objects that have had a profound influence in Asia and across the globe over the last 70 years. The artists and artworks presented in Individuals, Networks, Expressions form a complex web of connections.

The M+ Museum has 33 exhibition halls covering around 17,000 square meters, making it the biggest museum in Hong Kong.

The spray painting of Anita Mui's Album cover of “l(fā)eap on Stage” is on display in the M+ Museum in West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong special administrative region, Nov. 9, 2021. (Photo: China News Service/Li Zhihua)

Artworks are on display in the M+ Museum in West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong special administrative region, Nov. 9, 2021. (Photo: China News Service/Li Zhihua)

Artworks are on display at the Things, Spaces, Interactions area in the M+ Museum in West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong special administrative region, Nov. 9, 2021. (Photo: China News Service/Li Zhihua)

A visitor looks at the exhibits in the M+ Museum in West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong special administrative region, Nov. 11, 2021. (Photo: China News Service/Li Zhihua)

A visitor looks at the exhibits in the M+ Museum in West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong special administrative region, Nov. 11, 2021. (Photo: China News Service/Li Zhihua)

This photo taken on Nov. 9, 2021, shows the internal building structures of the M+ Museum in West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong special administrative region. (Photo: China News Service/Li Zhihua)