Art Basel Hong Kong 2027: Dates, Tickets and How to Do Arts Month in March

Art Basel dates and tickets

The fair takes two convention halls in Wan Chai and fills them with white booths and aisles, under the big curved roof you can see from the harbour. It is over in three days, so build the trip around those dates. If you are not in Hong Kong that week, there is nothing to go and see later.

Prices and the on-sale date for 2027 are not set. For now you can only register for first access, so do that if you think you will go. In 2026 the public days were 27 to 29 March, after invitation-only preview days from 25 March, and the cheaper advance tickets stopped selling in early March. Expect something similar, and buy as soon as sales open.

Art Central on the harbourfront

Art Central is 24 to 28 March 2027, with a preview day on 23 March. The pavilion stands on the flat reclamation at the Central Harbourfront, and the aisles open straight onto Victoria Harbour and the Kowloon skyline. It shows museum-quality work by names you will know, next to emerging and mid-career artists from across Asia. It is smaller than Art Basel and much less of a crush, which is the reason to go.

Daily times for 2027 are not out. In 2026 the fair opened at noon on its first public days and at 11 a.m. at the weekend, closing at 5 p.m. or 7 p.m., with one late evening session until 9 p.m. Both fairs in one day works. Start at the convention centre when it opens and walk the harbour to the tent afterwards.

M+ and the Palace Museum

Take exit D1 or E4 from Kowloon station. It is about 10 to 15 minutes on foot to M+ on the West Kowloon waterfront, part of it through the ELEMENTS mall. From Austin station, exit B4 gets you there in much the same time. The building is a long dark green-grey slab with a giant LED screen turned towards Victoria Harbour.

Admission is HK$190 for adults and HK$100 concession, and that one ticket covers every gallery including the special show. One adult with a child aged 7 to 11 is HK$250, and under-7s go free. It opens at 10 a.m. and closes at 6 p.m., with Friday running to 10 p.m. and Monday shut, and last admission half an hour before closing. Tickets are timed, so book online ahead of a busy weekend. The roof garden and the Grand Stair you can walk around without a ticket at all.

The big show until 4 April 2027 is Myths and Monsters. It moves from ukiyo-e prints through Surrealist painting to Godzilla. It ends with new work by Takashi Murakami. Expect fantasy and pop culture, not blue-chip modernism. For that, the fairs are where it is.

Five minutes' walk away is the Hong Kong Palace Museum, a sandy-gold building that widens as it rises, with vermilion-red doors. The thematic galleries are HK$70, or HK$35 concession, and the ticket that adds the special exhibition in Gallery 8 is HK$150 or HK$75. Children aged six and under are free. It opens at 10 a.m. and closes at 6 p.m., later on Friday and Saturday, and it shuts on Tuesdays.

The Gallery 8 show from 11 December is Cultural Exchange and Buddhist Art along the Silk Roads, and it stays up to 5 May 2027. In the thematic galleries, Qing Court in Four Seasons covers daily life inside the Qing imperial household and will be there for around two years. Book a timed slot online.

Tai Kwun and the art museum

Tai Kwun on Hollywood Road is the old Central police station, magistracy and prison, with two mesh-clad modern blocks dropped in above the cell blocks. Walking into the compound costs nothing, and so do the prison yard and the heritage displays. The compound is open daily from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. and the galleries from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed on Mondays. Free guided tours of the heritage buildings run in several languages and have to be booked ahead. It is a short walk up from Central MTR, and you can reach it off the Mid-Levels escalator.

Anne Imhof's House of Swans is on there until 3 January 2027, HK$50 or HK$40 concession, with live ballet included in the ticket on some days. Come for art month in March and it will be long gone.

Across the harbour, the Hong Kong Museum of Art stands on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront at 10 Salisbury Road, next to the Star Ferry pier. Entry is free and there is no booking, which makes it the easiest art stop to add to an evening. Live: Hong Kong Art shows work by Hong Kong artists and runs to 5 May 2027. Proudly from Canton, a collection of Cantonese and export art, runs to 4 July 2027. It opens at 10 a.m. and closes at 6 p.m., with Saturday and Sunday to 9 p.m. Thursday is the one day it shuts.

Films and theatre in March

The Hong Kong International Film Festival is set for 16 to 29 March 2027, so it overlaps the fairs almost exactly. That is the real argument for a March trip, with booths in the day and premieres at night. Screenings are spread across cinemas and cultural venues all over the city. The 2027 programme, venues and prices are not released yet. In 2026 the festival ran from 1 to 12 April and opened with Anthony Chen's We Are All Strangers.

The Hong Kong Arts Festival takes up February and March 2027. It opens on 18 February with the pianist Bruce Liu and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. The next night, Ballett Dortmund dances Alexander Ekman's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The one that lands near the fairs is Die Fledermaus on 12 March, staged by the Slovenian National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana. Prices and the on-sale date are not published, and it sells through its own website. Productions are spread across the city's main theatres, so each show lists its own venue. There is a resale desk during the festival if a show has sold out.

Before you go

Plan the museums around their closed days: Monday for M+, Tuesday for the Palace Museum and Thursday for the art museum in Tsim Sha Tsui. Book M+ ahead, register for Art Basel now, and check both fairs' times and prices before you go, as the 2027 figures are not set.

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