Fung Ping Shan Museum (University Museum and Art Gallery)

This museum, founded in 1932 within the University of Hong Kong on the initiative of Professor F. S. Drake, specializes in Chinese ceramics and bronzes. It provides an interesting insight into the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, periods which were so important to China's artistic development.

The collection of bronzes consists of three groups: ritual vessels of the Shang and Chou dynasties, decorative mirrors of the pre-T'ang and T'ang periods, and 966 Nestorian crosses of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1367) - the largest collection of its kind in the world.

The collection of ceramics includes painted pottery of the 3rd millennium BC, ware of the Han and T'ang dynasties, the world-famed "blue-and-white" porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing periods as well as work by the Yindezhen and Shiwan potters of more recent times.

The museum also has paintings from the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties as well as sculpture in stone, jade, lacquer-work and bamboo.