M+ Internship Programme 2024/2025 -Summer Intake- Curatorial Visual Culture

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 Curatorial Internship offers hands-on curatorial and exhibition-making experience.

Working with one of our curators as their mentor, they will assist the curatorial department on upcoming M+ exhibitions, programmes and research centred around Hong Kong Visual Culture.  

You will be able to:

• learn about M+, its collection and programmes.
• undertake research on topics that will contribute to the development of the museum and upcoming programmes.
• gain practical and theoretical training through an active involvement in our on-going projects and
• participate and assist in the organization of M+ exhibitions, internal workshops, and other public programmes as well as conduct research relating to Hong Kong Visual Culture.   

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 art history, Chinese history, design history, architecture, film studies, art education, cultural studies or related subjects in the humanities.
• have strong interest in working in the museum field.
• have strong interest in Hong Kong history.
• have strong organizational skills and are detail oriented.
• have strong teamwork and interpersonal skills; possess some relevant working experience is preferred but not required; and
• 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.