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\n\tThe Hong Kong Palace Museum entered into an agreement with the Islamic Civilization Center in Uzbekistan to collaborate on exhibitions, academic research, and other projects.<\/p>\n
\n\tAt a signing ceremony on Monday, the connection forged between the two institutions marked the first official reciprocal visit by a Central Asian cultural institution since Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive, John Lee Ka-chiu, led a delegation including the Palace Museum\u2019s director to the region last month. It follows a similar deal struck with the State Museum of History of Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n
\n\tAs reported by the South China Morning Post<\/em>, Hong Kong Palace Museum director Louis Ng Chi-wa said, \u201cDuring my trip to Uzbekistan, I had the privilege of meeting [the center\u2019s director] to discuss potential collaborative opportunities. I am delighted to see those initial conversations translate so quickly into this present here in Hong Kong today. This swift follow-up [in just a month] is a powerful testament to how eagerly the people of both Uzbekistan and Hong Kong wish to work together to promote cultural exchange and dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tA memorandum of understanding calls for joint exhibitions and research as well as initiatives related to professional training and development. Firdavs Abdukhalikov, director of the Islamic Civilization Center, said, \u201cThe Silk Road is actually what connected us. There was not only an exchange of trade and goods, but also ideas and new inventions \u2026 We want to bring our exhibitions here, not only in Hong Kong but other cities as well.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOf the Islamic Civilization Center, which was initiated by Uzbekistan\u2019s president in 2017, the country\u2019s ambassador to China, Farhod Arziev, said, \u201cThe center represents the great history of our people, our country and the great contributions of our ancestors, scholars to the development of humankind.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAccording to the South China Morning Post<\/em>, the Hong Kong Palace Museum\u2019s collection might feature in a special exhibition in Uzbekistan in October, as part of a wider event involving about 50 global museums showing Central Asian heritage pieces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/hong-kong-palace-museum-islamic-center-uzbekistan-1234793021\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/about-us-banner-1688436552.jpeg?w=1024″] The Hong Kong Palace Museum entered into an agreement with the Islamic Civilization Center in Uzbekistan to collaborate on exhibitions, academic research, and other projects. At a signing ceremony on Monday, the connection forged between the two institutions marked the first official reciprocal visit by a Central Asian cultural institution since Hong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2054941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2054941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2054941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2054941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2054941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}