New York’s Met to debut glittering global jewellery exhibition in Hong Kong

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) is debuting its first major travelling jewellery exhibition, "Treasures of Global Jewellery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Body Transformed," at the Hong Kong Palace Museum, opening Wednesday. The exhibition features approximately 200 jewellery and decorative pieces spanning 4,000 years of history from five continents. Selected from the Met's 8,000-piece collection, the exhibits represent 13 of the Met's 19 curatorial areas. The showcase includes diamond necklaces, golden pectorals, and ceremonial swords, supplemented by pieces from the Hong Kong Palace Museum's collection. The exhibition aims to display the transformation of jewellery across different cultures and time periods.