M+ Internship Programme 2024/2025 -Summer Intake- Collection & Exhibition

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 Collection & Exhibition Internship offers exposure and training in a variety of collection care and object management activities across teams within the Collection & Exhibition Department.  

The role affords the unique experience of working closely with collection objects in collaboration with museum staff, while learning the importance of object documentation as carried out by different museum teams.

Supported by the Senior Registrar, Collection, as the mentor, the intern will also have the opportunity to work closely with Senior Registrar, Loans & Exhibitions, Senior Manager, Collections Database, and Senior Manager, Rights & Images and their respective teams. 

You will be able to:

• Assist in collections care activates including object documentation and cataloguing, list preparation, labelling, packing, and storage.
• Assist in facilitating object movement, tracking, and general collection-related administration tasks.
• Assist in tracking, data entry, and the documentation of collections and loan material selected for exhibition.
• Assist Registration staff to facilitate access, packing, shipping, or installation of works in various areas across the museum.
• Assist in collection and exhibition installation photography.
• Assist in securing copyright licenses for collection objects and/or exhibitions.
• Assist in object information cleanup and enrichment within the collection management database.
• Assist with the development of support documentation and training materials.

Required Skills and Abilities

You need to:

• Be a permanent resident of the Hong Kong Special Administrative region.
• Possess a recognized university degree ideally in relevant fields such as art history, museum studies, arts administration, cultural management or equivalent.
• Have strong interest in working professionally in the museum field.
• Possess some relevant work experience, but not a requirement.
• Ability to listen to verbal instructions and carry out multi-step tasks.
• Have a good command of spoken and written English and Chinese (Cantonese / Mandarin). 

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.