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Press Release
2007-03-07 Britain Meets the World – exhibition jointly organized by
The National Palace National Museum of China (Gu Gong Bo Wu Yuan) and the British Museum are co-operating for the first time in a joint exhibition to be held at the Wu Men of the former. This exhibition will take place from March 10 to June 10 this year, and be sponsored by the local and non-profit making organization The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation. The exhibition will centre upon the period from 1714-1830, when Britain rose from an island state to a world power, influencing the world economically, politically and culturally in the process, and helped shape the modern world as we know it. According to Mr. Robert Ho, founder of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, visitors of this ground breaking exhibition can draw some analogies between Great Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth century and nowadays China, also on the rise as a world power, and whose influence is increasingly felt in the international arena. He also thinks Chinese people can draw some inspirations from that period of history about how China is going to position itself the world and face its future now that its interests are closely bound with those of the international community. Mr. Ho is particularly proud of the fact that the Foundation has been instrumental in instigating the co-operation of two of the most important museums of the world. The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation was founded in Hong Kong in January 2005. Its main mission is to promote the arts, arts education, and cultural exchanges between the East and the West, and also make the Chinese culture known to the world. It is the belief of the Founder Mr. Robert Ho that art and culture are part and parcel of the development of a community, and can bring benefits to its members and visitors. According to Mr. Ho, art can foster creativity, make us enjoy life to a fuller extent, and instill vitality into a community. It is also Mr. Ho’s belief that everybody should have access to art and culture, as well as the opportunity to exercise their creative instincts and satisfy their propensities for innovations. In the two years that followed its inception, the Foundation has already organized, sponsored, or initiated a number of notable events such as the preservation of the Kun opera and organizing of performances at Mainland universities, in co-operation with the famous writer Pai Hsien-yung. Kun opera is one of the oldest operatic forms in China and listed as an “oral and non material” heritage. The Foundation also established the “The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Orchestral Fellowships”, under which young aspiring musicians in Hong Kong are given the opportunity to practice, and even perform alongside seasoned professionals of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Under the scholarship schemes of the Foundations, promising students are given financial assistance to study at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. The most recent event organized by the foundation is the “Through Our Eyes”, which displayed the photographic works of Hong Kong secondary school students in a sights and sounds exhibition in which the audience could appreciate how our younger generation can skillfully combine their visual art abilities and sense of history. It is Foundation’s belief that one should give back to society what one has earned. It is also the cornerstone of the Foundation and driving force behind all the projects it has organized. In the same spirit, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation shall continue to carry out its missions, and may continue to co-operate with overseas museums with a view to hold similar exhibitions to Britain and the World.
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