Digital Exhibition at Hong Kong Palace Museum: Exploring the Forbidden City in a Digital Format for the First Time
The Hong Kong Palace Museum has unveiled its inaugural digital exhibition, "The Ways in Patterns: An Immersive Digital Exhibition from the Palace Museum." This groundbreaking showcase showcases the intricate patterns found in the architecture, ceramics, and textiles of Beijing's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City.
Through the use of impressive visual effects and immersive digital projections, the show reinterprets iconic icons of the Forbidden City, such as dragons, phoenixes, lotus flowers, peaches, egrets, and ocean waves, on a grand scale for visitor enjoyment.
The West Kowloon Cultural District is hosting the event, which uses technology to recreate a wide range of motifs and designs found in the former royal residence's architecture, ceramics, and embroidered textiles.
According to the exhibition's head designer, Maggie Cheng, "The Ways in Patterns" marks a departure from past displays, which primarily focused on historical artifacts. Instead, this exhibition takes a technology-driven approach, transforming static patterns from artifacts and architecture into dynamic, animated displays, offering visitors an engaging, multisensory experience with traditional Chinese culture.
In the past, only a minuscule fraction of the Beijing Palace Museum's collection of 1.86 million artifacts has been on display at any given time for an exhibition. "The Ways in Patterns" presents this visual beauty and cultural significance in a contemporary format, inviting audiences to explore and interpret the patterns through innovative digital interaction.
Crossing traditional art and modern technology, the exhibition "The Ways in Patterns" utilizes data-and-cloud-computing and artificial-intelligence to present a dynamic interpretation of the intricate patterns from the Forbidden City's architecture, ceramics, and textiles.
Embracing the new era of storytelling, this unique display breaks away from traditional exhibitions, transforming static patterns into lively, interactive digital displays, engaging visitors with revolutionary technology and the rich culture of China.
