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A selection of Russian royal treasures from the 16th to 18th centuries from the Moscow Kremlin Museums is on display in Hong Kong for the first time in The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Tsar of All Russia. Holiness and Splendour of Power exhibition. The exhibition, solely supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club, is open to the public from 29 May until 29 August at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series is a partnership between the Club and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Launched in 2012, it has brought to Hong Kong 20 world-class exhibitions and attracted nearly 4.2 million visitors to date to appreciate masterpieces from different places, times and cultures. The exhibitions are complemented by a variety of education and outreach activities to offer deeper historical and cultural context.

The latest world-class exhibition in The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series features some 170 sets of exquisite court treasures, meticulously selected from the splendid collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums. The wide-ranging objects, including staffs, holy relics, harnesses, weapons, articles from foreign diplomats, ornaments of queens and toys of princes, illustrate the monarch coronation ceremony, ceremonial departure, military power, diplomacy and royal life in Russia from the 16th to 18th centuries.

To enhance visitors’ experience, there are also multimedia and interactive programmes which aim to give visitors a better understanding of Russian cultural history. Other accompanying Club-supported education programmes include both in-person and online lectures on Russian history and culture, school visits, workshops and guided tours.

Similar to all its charitable donations, the Club’s support for The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series is made possible by its unique integrated business model through which it maintains tax and charity support for Hong Kong, contributing to the betterment of our society.

Previous exhibitions in The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series have included A History of the World in 100 Objects from the British Museum; Unlocking the Secrets - The Science of Conservation at The Palace Museum and Botticelli and His Times ─ Masterworks from the Uffizi.