Coinciding with the upcoming exhibition “The Prosperous Cities: A Selection of Paintings from the Liaoning Provincial Museum”, Hong Kong Museum of Art and Hong Kong Space Museum will jointly organise an education programme “Retracing the Imperial Routes of Kangxi and Qianlong” for schoolteachers.

The two highlight paintings to be featured in the exhibition - “Ten Views of West Lake” by Wang Yuanqi (1642-1715) and “Prosperous Suzhou” by Xu Yang (1712-after 1777) of the Qing dynasty - will be put on the large screen of the Space Museum. Through the aid of avant-garde computer technology, people will be able to travel back more than 200 years and retrace the imperial routes of Kangxi and Qianlong and appreciate the then metropolitan beauty of Suzhou and Hangzhou.

The programme will be held at the Space Museum’s Stanley Ho Space Theatre, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, next Saturday (September 19) from 10.30am to 11.30am. Media representatives are also invited to join in. The Curator (Xubaizhai) of Museum of Art, Mr Szeto Yuen-kit, will introduce the two paintings and the contents of the upcoming exhibition.

Coverage is invited.

Running from September 25 to November 22 at the Museum of Art, the exhibition “The Prosperous Cities: A Selection of Paintings from the Liaoning Provincial Museum” will feature 15 paintings on the unique theme of prosperous cities of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing dynasties (1644-1911) collected by the Liaoning Provincial Museum. Many of the exhibits were once part of the Qing imperial collection, with some even commissioned by the emperors Kangxi and Qianlong. The paintings immortalise the picturesque Hangzhou that Emperor Kangxi visited on his southern tours, and a sumptuous banquet that Emperor Qianlong hosted for his court. With an attempt to reflect the metropolitan beauty of ancient China portrayed in those beautiful scrolls, the exhibition also invites people to explore the imperial minds that inspired the creation of both the cities and the masterpieces that depict them.