A look inside the world’s first-ever ‘meme museum’ in Hong Kong [photos]

Online humor platform 9GAG has opened the world’s first meme museum at an art mall in Hong Kong, which runs until 5 September.

FIRST-EVER ‘MEME MUSEUM’

Located at the K11 Art Mall in Hong Kong, the meme museum showcases the most iconic memes the internet has to offer including the history of both old and new memes.

The meme museum features seven main areas that showcase the most popular memes from Drake’s Hotline Bling to the “distracted boyfriend” meme. The seven-story mall located in Tsim Sha Tsui, a shopping and nightlife district in Kowloon aims to “bring art back into everyday living” by featuring exhibits on its shopping premises.

“MEME is a kind of art, MEME MAKER is to hide folk artists ,” wrote K11 Mall on Instagram when the caption was translated to English.

“K11 Art Mall has always been committed to promoting local creative power, to present more artistic possibilities, and there are so few MEMEs that everyone can burn day and night and laugh for years!,” the mall continued.

“In this issue of the “WHY SO MEME” project, the local network platform 9GAG will be brought from the network to the entity, and the first MEME MUSEUM by 9GAG will be set up. The exhibition invites many artists to create a second time, reinterpret the classic memories of nearly half a century, and upgrade the folk creative MEME drawings into pieces of art ,” the mall added.

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‘TIME TUNNEL’

Tourists and visitors can take a trip down the “time tunnel” to have a look at the history of memes via rows of television screens including displays of Hong Kong styled jokes as well as worldwide classics such as the over his irate reaction to a dropped ball in the 2019 Cricket World Cup. 

Here is an inside look at the museum. 

INSIDE LOOK AT THE ‘MEME MUSEUM’

I got featured in Hong Kong museum of memes yohooo pic.twitter.com/uQ8GL0s7l7

— Sarim Akhtar (@msarimakhtar) July 31, 2021

Caught up with @9GAG co-founder and CEO Ray Chan at the world's first "Meme Museum," a collaboration between 9GAG and @k11hongkong. pic.twitter.com/vzQ9BfkmsI

— Richard Lai (@richardlai) August 4, 2021

So what do I think about the Meme Museum by 9gag? (last pic) pic.twitter.com/t9Q4ehyDPp

— Full BioNTech – Teddy Setiawan Kho 許開仁 (@ted_kho) August 7, 2021

TEMPORARY TATTOO STATION

One of the features of the museum is a temporary tattoo station offering meme prints, photo booths that create custom memes and a 4D interactive zone. There is also an augmented reality exhibit that brings modes of 2D meme’s to life as they pass a screen on the cinveryor belt. 

Lisa Tang posted the video to YouTube. Here is a look.

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

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