The Hong Kong Palace Museum’s exhibition “The Ancient Egyptian Civilisation: Treasures from the Egyptian Museum” closed on August 31, 2026, after about nine and a half months and more than 670,000 visits.
About 170 types of cultural and creative merchandise generated more than HK$33 million in revenue. The products included blind-box figurines, with 100,000 boxes sold, according to reports.
Museum director Wu Zhihua said the merchandise income would be used to support the Hong Kong Palace Museum’s regular exhibitions and research.
More than 12,000 people visited during the exhibition’s final weekend, according to Star Headline, while i-CABLE reported that the figure covered the final two weekends. Both reports said the attendance set a record for the relevant weekend period, but they differed over whether the figure covered one weekend or two.
The exhibition opened on November 20, 2025. Ming Pao reported that about half of the visitors were local residents, with the remainder from mainland China and Southeast Asia. Wu Zhihua said the museum would seek deeper cooperation with Egyptian cultural institutions in exhibitions, research and digital innovation. Star Headline reported that Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities secretary-general Hisham El-Leithy visited the exhibition before it closed and exchanged views with the museum team.