• MGM joined hands with Poly Culture Group to present the “POLY MGM MUSEUM Cultural Exchange Program 2026.”
• Guided by the Art Exhibitions China and China Poly Group and organized by POLY MGM MUSEUM, the program attracted more than 500 participants.

MGM joined hands with Poly Culture Group to present the “POLY MGM MUSEUM Cultural Exchange Program 2026 – Weaving the Legacy of Silk Roads,” which featured two themed forums, the signing of cooperation Memorandum of Understanding  (MoU), major new exhibition announcements and refreshed highlights of its Silk Road exhibition.

Through these program components, the event gathered high-quality museum and cultural heritage collaboration resources for Macau and injected fresh momentum into civilizational dialogue and mutual learning.

Guided by the Art Exhibitions China and China Poly Group and organized by the POLY MGM MUSEUM, the program attracted more than 500 participants. The POLY MGM MUSEUM signed MoUs with five institutions – Capital Museum (Beijing), Xinjiang Museum, Gansu Provincial Museum, Shaanxi History Museum and Guangdong Museum (Guangzhou Lu Xun Museum) – to establish long-term cooperation mechanisms spanning exhibition exchange, academic research, resource sharing and talent development.

Two forums were held on the same day. The first, “Harmony and Coexistence: Forging a Shared Future Through Dialogue and Innovation,” examined how the spirit of the Silk Roads can be reimagined and translated into contemporary practice. The second, “Curating Confluence: Museums as Nexuses for Sino-Western Cultural Exchanges,” focused on how Macau can foster deeper Chinese-Western cultural dialogue through new curatorial approaches and innovative forms of expression.

The forums brought together experts and scholars from Macau, Beijing, Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Guangdong, Hainan, Italy and Portugal. Discussions extended from the Silk Roads’ breadth into the deeper currents of civilizational exchange, offering new directions for innovative museum storytelling, intercultural mutual learning and evolving models of cultural communication. A subsequent roundtable advanced practical dialogue on exhibition collaboration and future development planning.

“The POLY MGM MUSEUM will continue to use Macau as our starting point, uniting cultural and museum partners from home and abroad.” – Pansy Ho

Wang Bo, Chairman of Poly Culture Group and Chairman of Board Committee, POLY MGM MUSEUM, remarked that since the museum opened in 2024, it has pursued a consistent path: bringing academic rigor, artistic imagination and technological innovation into resonance within the museum space so that ancient civilizations may speak with renewed vitality today.

Pansy Ho, Chairperson and Executive Director of MGM China Holdings Limited, Vice Chairman of the Board Committee and Museum Director, POLY MGM MUSEUM, added, “The POLY MGM MUSEUM will continue to use Macau as our starting point – uniting cultural and museum partners from home and abroad, promoting the two-way flow of cultural resources through both ‘bringing in’ international strengths and ‘going out’ to share Chinese culture globally, and expanding our cultural ‘circle of friends’. Through these efforts, we aim to enable Chinese culture to innovate through inheritance and grow through exchange, adding deeper cultural strength to the stories of both China and Macau.”

It was also announced during the event that in the fourth quarter of 2026, the POLY MGM MUSEUM – together with the National Museum of China and the Zibo Ceramic and Glass Museum – will launch the new exhibition “Confluence in Glass: East-West Artistry Across Time.” Featuring more than 180 exhibits, it will unfold across three thematic chapters tracing 3,000 years of Chinese glassmaking, with highlights including East-West comparisons of ancient glass, juxtapositions of historical and contemporary works, integrations of physical displays with digital interpretation and craft-focused presentations.