{"id":478657,"date":"2026-06-06T02:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/478657\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:04:14","slug":"in-pictures-haw-par-mansion-and-the-long-lost-tiger-balm-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/478657\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Haw Par Mansion and the long-lost Tiger Balm Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Built in the 1930s by Tiger Balm tycoon Aw Boon Haw to promote Chinese culture as well as his brand of pain-relieving ointment, Hong Kong\u2019s Tiger Balm Garden, in Tai Hang, was a sprawling park with a white pagoda and colourful statues surrounding an eye-catching mansion. The garden was demolished for a housing development in 2004 but Haw Par Mansion was preserved, and opened in 2019 as a music academy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It closed again three years later, but is now being transformed into Hong Kong\u2019s first \u201ccultural villa\u201d. Led by the Foundation for Art and Culture, the self-financing, non-profit project will reimagine the Grade 1 historic site \u2013 rechristened Villa Haw Par \u2013 as a destination for artistic exchange, public engagement and cross-cultural dialogue.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The transformation will be unveiled in phases from September and result in research, exhibition and immersive spaces as well as a teahouse and a cinema programme celebrating Hong Kong\u2019s cultural legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Built in the 1930s by Tiger Balm tycoon Aw Boon Haw to promote Chinese culture as well as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[222020,3388,146,222024,222021,3448,85,46,5786,222018,222023,222022,222019],"class_list":["post-478657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aw-boon-haw","tag-chinese","tag-entertainment","tag-foundation-for-art-and-culture","tag-haw-par-mansion","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-september","tag-tai-hang","tag-tiger-balm","tag-tiger-balm-garden","tag-villa-haw-par"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}