Job Description

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. Located in Hong Kong’s WestK, we are one of the leading museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world. The museum reflects our unique time and place, building on Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and the international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia’s twenty-first century.

Working closely with Curator, Collections to support the Collections team in acquisitions, collection research, public access of the collections, cataloguing standards, and other collections-related museum matters.

You will be responsible for:

• Supporting the preparation of the M+ Acquisition Committee meetings;
• conducting object-level curatorial research on the M+ Collections, which includes provenance, exhibition history, gathering of bibliographic references and technical information;
• preparing the public release of collection information for online and offline purposes;
• ensuring that tombstones on exhibition labels are accurate and consistent with museum guidelines for collection displays and special exhibitions;
• ensuring that the cataloguing guidelines for works in the disciplinary areas of Design & Architecture, Moving Image, and Visual Art are used consistently museum wide;
• performing any other duties from time to time as reasonably assigned by the Curator, Collections; and

• performing any duties from time to time as reasonably as assigned by M+.

You should:

• Possess a graduate-level degree from a recognised university in Art History, Curatorial or Museum Studies, or other related disciplines;
• have 4-6 years’ experience in a curatorial position, preferably working with collections and the cataloguing of visual art, design and architecture and/or moving image works;
• prior experience using The Museum System (TMS), or other collections management software;
• working proficiency in Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese) and English;
• knowledge of 20th and 21st century visual culture;
• punctual and professional work ethic; and
• meticulous attention to detail.

For interested parties, please submit your application with detailed CV on or before following date Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible. The review of applications will continue until post is filled.

13-05-2026

Data collected will only be used for job application processing. Your data may be accessed by our appointed recruitment consultants who have agreed to keep confidence of all personal data in not less than the standards applicable to us. Applicants not being invited for interview within 4 weeks from the submission date may assume their applications unsuccessful.

All related information will be kept up to 24 months and all personal data will be destroyed afterwards.

For more information, please visit https://www.westk.hk or contact:

Catrina Mok /+852 22000006