Pop culture expo set

July 27, 2021

Fashion trends:

"Hong Kong Pop 60+" exhibits include a minidress worn by actress Josephine Siao in a 1960s Cantonese musical film.

Golden oldies:

Also on display is the first acoustic guitar bought by Wong Ka-kui the lead singer of band Beyond.

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Hong Kong has taken advantage of its unique geographical position and historical background to become a renowned international metropolis, where East meets West and diversity thrives. Over time, Hong Kong popular culture has developed different features as trends evolve.

Dance parties became a popular phenomenon in the 1960s. This minidress was worn by actress Josephine Siao in a Cantonese musical and helped influence the minidress fashion trend in the city.

The film industry has been one of Hong Kong's most important aspects of popular culture. Seeing people’s lives reflected on the big screen, movies became the main source of entertainment for Chinese people overseas. 

Pop culture further developed with the emergence of free-to-air television in 1967 and quickly took over as a favourite form of entertainment. 

The 1980s saw a band music industry boom. One of the era’s best-known bands was Beyond. Its lead singer Wong Ka-kui saved $3,000 to buy his first acoustic guitar and the band’s early work was composed on that very guitar. 

More than 1,000 exhibits take visitors on a journey through the development of Hong Kong’s popular music, film, television and radio programmes, as well as comics and toys, from the end of the Second World War to the early 2000s. 

Heritage Museum Curator (Special Duties) Judith Ng:
We curated several exhibitions related to pop culture. For example, we curated exhibitions on Cantopop, also we curated exhibitions about Roman Tam and Anita Mui. 

Some visitors asked us why these exhibitions were so short and why they were just temporary exhibitions.  

Since we are getting more and more exhibits on popular culture, we started to think about creating an exhibition on popular culture. 

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Travel back in time to a bygone era by visiting the Heritage Museum's Hong Kong Pop 60+ exhibition from July 28 for free.

A new permanent exhibition will open at the Heritage Museum from tomorrow on the development of popular culture in Hong Kong.

More than 1,000 exhibits at "Hong Kong Pop 60+" will take visitors on a journey through the development of the city’s popular music, film, television and radio programmes, as well as comics and toys, from the end of the Second World War to the early 2000s.

One of the exhibits is a minidress worn by actress Josephine Siao in a Cantonese musical that helped influence the minidress fashion trend in the city.

The 1980s saw a band music industry boom. One of the era’s best-known bands was Beyond. Its lead singer Wong Ka-kui saved $3,000 to buy his first acoustic guitar and the band’s early work was composed on that very guitar.

Heritage Museum Curator (Special Duties) Judith Ng said at the press preview today that the museum has curated several exhibitions related to pop culture.

“Since we are getting more and more exhibits on popular culture, we started to think about creating an exhibition on popular culture.”

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