Editorial | Visitors deserve to enjoy Egyptian heritage on display free of chaos

The Hong Kong Palace Museum suspended walk-in ticket sales for the “Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums” exhibition at 11am on Sunday. The day before, many visitors were left fuming after having to wait up to 90 minutes to enter the temporary exhibit. Lack of information and poor crowd control led to some demanding refunds. Crowd bottlenecks must be worked out. The museum expects to attract more than 700,000 visitors over the nine-month run of the largest display in the city of relics from the ancient civilisation. Baher Sheweikhi, Egypt’s consul general for Hong Kong and Macau, said he…