{"id":131585,"date":"2022-09-22T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T09:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/?post_type=press&p=131585"},"modified":"2022-09-22T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T09:31:11","slug":"cuhk-art-museum-scoops-the-international-council-of-museums-umac-award-becoming-the-first-winner-in-east-asia","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/press\/cuhk-art-museum-scoops-the-international-council-of-museums-umac-award-becoming-the-first-winner-in-east-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"CUHK Art Museum scoops the International Council of Museums\u2019 UMAC Award, becoming the first winner in East Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-131585","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"title_alt":"","sub_title_alt":"","press_date":"20220922","keep":false,"details":"

The International Council of Museums Committee for University Museums and Collections (ICOM-UMAC) announced on 18 September that The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)\u2019s Art Museum has won the UMAC Award 2022 for its project Time Travel\u30fbHong Kong<\/a>. It becomes the first university museum in East Asia to win the award. Second place went to the project \u201c<\/em>Orchids Blossom: Botanical Art Collections from the University of Tokyo\u201d by University of Tokyo (Japan) and the \u201cTHESIS Project\u201d by Corporaci\u00f3n Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Colombia).<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u201cTime Travel \u2022 Hong Kong\u201d, sponsored by GS Charity Foundation, was at first designed to supplement a special exhibition \u201cHong Kong Impressions\u201d, but it became a project by itself, \u201coutliving\u201d the exhibit. It is an online interactive tool for public engagement that leveraged the revival of local tourism in Hong Kong at times of travel restriction caused by COVID-19. Comprised of online tours, it effectively uses Google street views. The tour-tool offers an immersive and informative journey of art, history and culture, supported by developments in latest technology.<\/p>\r\n

The 2022 UMAC Award is presented to the Art Museum of The Chinese University of Hong Kong \u201cTime Travel \u2022 Hong Kong\u201d for its innovation, creativity, excellence, transferability, and significant impact on the university, the community and society at large.<\/p>\r\n

Professor Josh Yiu, Director of CUHK\u2019s Art Museum, said, \u201cThe Art Museum is thrilled and honoured to be selected for such an accolade. I\u2019d like to thank the team for their innovation in realising old Hong Kong artworks through Google street views. I hope to see more university museums make similar use of technology, integrating it with their exhibits.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

The winner last year was Aarhus University, Denmark, with its project \u201cProfession and Passion: A Life in Science\u201d. Second place went to Harvard Museum\u2019s \u201cThe Pandemic Pivot\u201d and Tel Aviv University\u2019s \u201cPlan(e)t: Plants Think, Think Plants\u201d.<\/p>\r\n

The presentations by the winner and finalists of the UMAC Award 2022 are available on YouTube: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3LxKo2Y<\/a><\/p>","show_as_achievement":false,"achievement_category":[],"show_as_clarification":false,"show_as_announcement":false,"photos":[{"photo":131586,"caption":"CUHK Art Museum\u2019s project \u201cTime Travel\u30fbHong Kong\u201d"},{"photo":131587,"caption":"\u201cTime Travel\u30fbHong Kong\u201d online tour on Google Earth"}],"attachments":[{"text":"About CUHK's Art Museum","link":"","file":131479}],"video_source":"","video_file":"","add_play_button":false,"video_caption":"","show_migration":false,"original_id":0,"photos_original":null,"attachments_original":null},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/131585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/131585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131591,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/131585\/revisions\/131591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}