The exhibition will feature iconic intangible cultural heritage items of Hainan, including traditional Li textile techniques of spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidering and Hainan coconut carving, demonstrations of the four textile techniques of the Li ethnic group, and photographs and promotional videos of 32 national intangible cultural heritage items of  Hainan in a bid to create a space of Hainan intangible cultural heritage in the Macao Museum and relate the beautiful stories of the

“Return to the Education with Love – Exhibition of Historical Objects of Escola Stella Matutina” brings together objects of Escola Stella Matutina in former days, providing a glimpse of campus life in the past and bearing emotions and memories that the alumni have never forgotten.  The exhibition is divided into four sections, namely “Campus Relics”, “Garden of Learning”, “Traces of Youth” and “Essence of Love”, which introduces the former buildings of Escola Stella Matutina...

Since the world’s first-ever postcard appeared in 1869, travellers from around the world have started to send postcards to their beloved ones to express their feelings and share what they have seen during their journeys. Postcards, as a new medium, not only initiate a new mode of emotional com...

Since Macao returned to the mother country in 1999, Macao has acquired solid support and earned great achievements in urban development in the last two decades. Urban functions of Macao have been improving since many infrastructure construction projects were completed. Through piers, sea-crossing br...

Western Xia was founded in 1038, east to the Hexi Corridor stretch of the Silk Road. In its heyday, the territory of Western Xia covered what are now the entire Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, part of Gansu Province, Qinghai Province, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Shaanxi Province, and was sai...

The Macao Museum was established in 1998. We embrace its 20th anniversary this year. For a long time, we have been offering a platform to exhibit the unique cultural encounter between East and West and have organized many large-scaled exhibitions, including “From Versailles to the Forbidden Ci...

Nanhai No.1 shipwreck is the world’s existing richest and fullest aggregate of artifacts that reflect the culture of the Maritime Silk Routes. According to the site of its sinking and the characteristics of its artifacts, Nanhai No.1 was a civilian trade ship that set sail from Quanzhou Port d...

Since becoming an open port in the 16th century, Macao developed from a small fishing village to a small city, with lots of different industries emerging, such as the incense, firecracker and match handicraft industries. Due to external market demand and the favourable conditions of the then socio-e...

The Macao Museum is a space dedicated to the history and culture of Macao, possessed of a vast number of objects of historical and cultural value, which demonstrate the way of life of the various communities that have inhabited the city for centuries.