M+ Internship -2024/2025- Summer - Learning & Interpretation - Humanities

The Programme

The M+ Internship Programme, supported by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Hong Kong, is a unique opportunity for those who are interested in developing a career in the museum field.  

You will work closely with the M+ team full time for a period of one year, gaining both practical and theoretical training.

This intake will take place from August 2024 to August 2025.

The Learning and Interpretation Internship provides hands-on training for potential museum professionals who are interested in gaining curatorial experience on museum education.

Working under the supervision of one of our curators as their mentor, the interns will assist on upcoming learning programmes and events on various aspects; including interpretation and audience engagement. 

You will be able to:

• explore topics of research in fields such as museum pedagogy, interpretation strategy and audience engagement.
• develop deep understanding of museum education and curatorial practice through the content development process of innovative learning programmes and interpretive resources.
• design and conduct evaluation exercises for interpretive tools and different gallery-based learning outlets.
• assist in planning and execution of gallery-related activities for different audience groups.
• support the Learning and Interpretation team and support the operation of a range of educational events and offerings for different audience group such as schools or families; and
• gain exposure and a unique insight into the working of international project for M+. 

Required Skills and Abilities

You need to:

• be a permanent resident of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
• possess a recognized university degree or equivalent qualification in education, cultural studies, sociology, humanities, social work or a related subject.
• have strong interest in visual culture education and museum learning.
• be passionate about engaging museum audiences.
• have excellent command of spoken and written English and Chinese (Cantonese / Mandarin)
• have strong organizational skills and are detail oriented. 
• be open-minded to learning new things and collaborating with others.
• be required to work on some weekends and public holidays for supporting learning programmes; and
• have skills dealing with digital and multimedia management is preferred but not required. 

M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

In Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, we are building one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world, with a bold ambition to establish ourselves as one of the world’s leading cultural institutions.  

Our aim is to create a new kind of museum that reflects our unique time and place, a museum that builds on Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia’s twenty-first century. 

About Us:

Stretching across 40 hectares of reclaimed land, the West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the largest cultural projects in the world, blending art, education and open space.  

Its vision is to create a vibrant cultural quarter for Hong Kong where the local arts scene can interact, develop and collaborate. Providing 23 hectares of public open space with two kilometres of vibrant harbour-front promenade, it will also include a variety of arts and cultural facilities that will produce and host world-class exhibitions, performances and arts and cultural events.  

A Development Plan for the District, based on well-received Foster + Partner’s Conceptual Plan, was approved by the Chief Executive-in-Council in January 2013. Overlooking the magnificent Victoria Harbour, the District will begin to take shape over the next decade.