by admin | Nov 18, 2021
Myanmar’s tumultuous history has not only been a major research focus for Professor Ian Holliday, it has impacted him personally. When the country began to open up just over a decade ago, he was Dean of Social Sciences at HKU. Given the significance of the changes at...
by admin | Nov 18, 2021
Museums tell a story as much by what they omit as what they contain. The National Museum of American History includes displays of all aspects of the country’s past and welcomes about three million visitors a year. But two key groups – African Americans and Native...
by admin | Nov 18, 2021
“Chronology is our mental scaffolding for organising historical reasoning. It provides us with a strong sense of the continuity and incidences of time in order to understand historical causality,” says the introductory page of the Hong Kong Art Timeline, a project put...
by admin | Nov 18, 2021
Named UMAG STArts, the initiative comprises a series of programmes that link with the Museum’s permanent collections and highlight interdisciplinary studies of art history, novel technologies and conservation and their multiple crossover points within science,...
by admin | May 13, 2021
After the World Trade Centre in New York was attacked in 2001, the 9/11 Commission concluded that American security forces had fallen short due to a ‘failure of imagination’. It is a failure that the military is trying to ensure will not happen again. From...
