In 2011, the University of Hong Kong celebrated its centenary as the first and for many years only university in Hong Kong providing a Western, English-language education for the region. An exhibition entitled "HKU Memories from the Archives," held at the University Museum and Art Gallery from December 2011 to March 2012, featured more than two hundred artifacts from the collections of the university archives and loans from private collections. This richly illustrated publication presents a selection of documents and artifacts primarily from the first fifty years of the university's history.