The Metropolitan Museum of Art is exhibiting 200 global jewelry pieces in Hong Kong. The exhibition, titled 'The Body Transformed,' covers 4,000 years of human history and is the museum’s first major traveling jewelry show.

Diamond-studded necklaces, golden pectorals and ceremonial smallswords are among about 200 jewellery and decorative pieces, covering 4,000 years of history across five continents, to be showcased in Hong Kong from Wednesday. Titled “Treasures of Global Jewellery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Body Transformed”, the show at the Hong Kong Palace Museum marks the US institute’s first major travelling showcase of its jewellery collection. About 200 exhibits have been selected from the...