M+ Internship Programme -2024/2025- Summer - Museum Business - Management

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 Museum Business Intern will sit in the Museum Business Team and will support initiatives and projects including the visitor research coordination, analysis and reporting; industrial research and benchmark; budget and forecast exercise; and operational improvement projects.  

The role presents an excellent opportunity to gain first-hand insights into project planning, analysis and management in one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world.

You will be able to:

• build positive working relationships with stakeholders from different teams of the museum; 
• gather, organize and analyze qualitative and quantitative data; 
• draft and design engaging communications including presentations and project updates;  
• conduct on-site and desktop research on key strategic initiatives;   
• develop and showcase independent project management skills;
• perform other ad-hoc duties as and when required by the supervisor.  

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, preferred in management, business, cultural studies or sociology.
• have interest in working professionally in the arts and cultural industries.
• have inquiring mind with an ability to express opinions and insights.
• have good communication and organizational skills.
• be a team player with interpersonal skills.
• 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.