Established in 1911, HKU is the oldest university in Hong Kong. The Main Building , completed in the Edwardian style in 1912, is a declared monument. Several other early-20th-century buildings on the campus, including the Hung Hing Ying (1919) and Tang Chi Ngong Buildings (1929), are also protected.
The University Museum & Art Gallery is to the left of the university’s Main Building and opposite the start of Hing Hon Rd. It houses collections of ceramics and bronzes spanning 5000 years, including exquisite blue and white Ming porcelain; decorative mirrors from the Warring States period to the Qing dynasty; and almost 1000 small Nestorian crosses from the Yuan dynasty, the largest such collection in the world.
