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Dunhuang: Enchanting Tales for Millennium
Exhibitions

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Dunhuang: Enchanting Tales for Millennium

Date:
24 Aug - 21 Nov, 2022
Time:

Mon, Wed to Fri
10:00am - 6:00pm

Sat, Sun & public holidays
10:00am - 7:00pm

Closed on Tue (except public holidays)

Box Office will be closed 30 minutes before the Museum closes

Venue:
Thematic Galleries 3, 4 & 5, 1/F, Hong Kong Heritage Museum
1 Man Lam Road, Sha Tin, New Territories
Fee:
Standard (Adult): $10
Group: $7
Concessionary: $5
Free (Museum Pass)

Exhibition Details

The exhibition will showcase artefacts, mural paintings, reproduction of paintings in silk and a replica of Yulin Cave 25. Visitors are invited to a feast of visual splendour with a series of art-tech display and multi-media programmes to experience and appreciate the worldly and heavenly aspirations of ancient forebears in their pursuit of the true, the good and the beautiful in the Buddhism realm of Dunhuang.

  • Painted gilt-bronze head of Mahavairocana • 8th - 9th century
  • Illustration of the “Sutra on the Profundity of Filial Love” (Digital display) • Northern Song dynasty
  • Illustration of “Amitayus-mindfulness Sutra” • Yulin Cave 25 • Mid Tang dynasty
  • Illustration of “Amitayus-mindfulness Sutra” (Detail) • North wall of Mogao Cave 320 • High Tang dynasty
  • Illustration of “Amitayus-mindfulness Sutra” (Detail) • North wall of Mogao Cave 45 • High Tang dynasty
  • Mount Wutai (Detail) • Mogao Cave 61 • Five Dynasties period
  • Apsara Musician • Ceiling of Yulin Cave 15 (Detail) • Northern Song dynasty