China state museum opens in Hong Kong amid patriotism drive

A visitor dressed in Chinese costume tours the Hong Kong Palace Museum (Kin Cheung/AP)

China’s famed Palace Museum opened a branch in Hong Kong on Sunday amid a drive to build loyalty to Beijing in the former British colony that reverted to Chinese rule 25 years ago.

Works of calligraphy and paintings on silk dating back more than 1,000 years featured heavily in the exhibition, housed in a seven-storey building in a newly developed harbourside arts district.