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Hong Kong, 19 February 2025:<\/strong> I\u2019ve been dazzled by Doha\u2019s Museum of Islamic Art, gushed over the Guggenheim Bilbao\u2019s brilliance and marvelled at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. Iconic venues all, each showcasing the audacious imagination and spirit of adventure which drives humankind. Just a guess, but I might have to lower my expectations when I visit Hong Kong\u2019s new CR7 Life Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our city\u2019s latest cultural attraction, due to open in July, is dedicated to the career and achievements of footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. It will be testament to \u201cthe power of ambition, passion, perseverance and hard work\u201d, the organisers promise, and is \u201caimed at empowering youth and dreamers\u201d. OK!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we go all highbrow and mock the idea of a museum honouring someone who kicks a ball for a living, we should crunch the numbers. Hong Kong is football mad. Our cramped city somehow still has space for 220 public pitches; despite the time difference with Europe, fans pack bars each weekend for big matches from England, Spain and Italy; the official Manchester United Supporters Club here has some 1,100 paid-up members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what about ex-United superstar Ronaldo? Now 40, he\u2019s still scoring goals in the Saudi Pro League. He might be the most famous person on the planet, having just reached one billion followers<\/a> across his social media platforms. He\u2019s certainly the highest paid athlete<\/a>, having netted \u2013 ha! \u2013 some US$260 million last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His pop-up museum, located in the K11 Musea shopping centre, will operate until May next year. Organisers are hoping to attract 12 million visitors. You can bet a fair few of those will be there on opening day, when the icon himself is expected to attend (although he won\u2019t be playing football, thus imitating the infamous example<\/a> of his great rival Lionel Messi).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who said museums should contain only works of art or historical items? With its finger on the cultural pulse, Hong Kong\u2019s Ocean Park plans to build a panda museum<\/a> to help promote long-term interest in our city\u2019s burgeoning family of bears. The latest attractions are twin cubs \u2013 popularly known as \u201cElder Sister\u201d and \u201cYounger Brother\u201d ahead of a city-wide naming competition \u2013 born to mother Ying Ying last August. They made their public debut for thousands of visitors last Sunday. The theme park is now home to six giant pandas, the largest number living in captivity under the same roof outside mainland China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ocean Park chairman Paulo Pong reveals the museum will be developed in stages over the coming years. \u201cWe have many stories to tell,\u201d he says. It will include an auditorium to host large-scale global conferences for discussing panda conservation. This comes after a pop-up attraction of 2,500 panda sculptures along our city\u2019s harbour front, with sales of the exhibits raising HK$923,000 for conservation efforts. Are we suffering panda fever? Even the South China Morning Post<\/em> has been moved to pen an editorial<\/a> devoted to our furry friends, noting \u201cit remains unclear how effective the black and white bears will be at luring overseas visitors, stimulating business or reviving the flagging economy\u201d. Quite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the face of it, both museums align with our government\u2019s grandly titled B<\/a>lueprint for Arts and Culture and Creative Industries Development<\/a>, which seeks to enhance the integration of culture, sports and tourism and to promote these to residents and visitors alike. As a cultural icon, sporting superstar and magnet for fans, CR7 ticks all the boxes. And we do, after all, have a government minister \u2013 currently Rosanna Law \u2013 responsible for all three sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before then, we can look forward to \u201cHong Kong Super March\u201d \u2013 who comes up with these titles? \u2013 in which our city will stage a string of arts, cultural and sports events<\/a>. ComplexCon Hong Kong, Art Central, Art Basel and a Pablo Picasso exhibition at the M+ museum are expected to draw a combined 400,000 attendees. Sports fans can lap up the World Snooker Grand Prix and LIV Golf Hong Kong tournament, whetting appetites for the hallowed Hong Kong Rugby Sevens, switching to the glitzy new Kai Tak Stadium, at the end of the month. Bullish chief executive John Lee estimates these and other events will attract 840,000 visitors and HK$3.3 billion worth of spending in the first half of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This news will undoubtedly please I\u00f1aki Amate, design industry innovator, chair of the European Chamber of Commerce and staunch advocate of our city\u2019s need to attract international talent. Spanish by birth and global in outlook, I\u00f1aki is my latest \u2013 and highly informative \u2013 guest on our Law & More<\/em> podcast. Please listen<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we seek creativity and inspiration to put Hong Kong on the world\u2019s cultural map, we can look beyond our borders for inspiration. The just-opened HaHaHouse<\/a> in Zagreb claims to be the first museum dedicated exclusively to making its visitors laugh, while a developer in London has unveiled grand plans<\/a> to transform giant tunnels built to shelter citizens during World War II bombing raids into the capital\u2019s biggest new tourist attraction for years. In mainland China, meanwhile, resourceful residents of rural Xiapu are a<\/a>cting out picturesque pastoral scenes<\/a> and charging tourists to photograph them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elderly they may be, but also enterprising. They appear to have figured out \u2013 just like our friend Ronaldo \u2013 that it pays to make an exhibition of yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until next time, everybody!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colin Cohen<\/strong>
Senior Partner<\/strong>
Boase Cohen & Collins<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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