Associate Curator | M+ Museum — Hong Kong SAR, China

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.

You will be responsible for

Working in close collaboration with curators across multiple disciplines, you will be responsible for defining and articulating key messages and visitor outcomes for exhibitions that connect with target audiences
Supervising the work of other interpretation team members and working across the learning and digital teams to ensure key messages and outcomes for exhibitions are applied and understood and work in tandem with programming and other audience development goals
Develop compelling ways of telling stories about objects, artworks and ideas through varying means – text, interactives, audio guides and other in gallery visitor experiences.
Ensure the interpretive plan is consistently realized through close teamwork with curators, designers, and multimedia producers.
Overseeing our in-gallery interpretation offerings, including the M+ Guides Programme, our VIP and tertiary tour, that includes creating and developing content for a range of drop-in and registered tours, and related training program for M+ Guides related to exhibition with the team.
Building relationships within the volunteer guide and educator community when needed
Plan and lead visitor research projects that develop knowledge about interpretive experiences across exhibitions and collections
Contributing expertise across the wider learning and curatorial teams and museum field
Contributing to strategic planning and work across team on communicating the role of interpretation within the institution.

You should

possess a recognised university degree, preferably in museum education, journalism, communications, creative media, cultural management or equivalent;
have at least 6 years of professional experience in museum education or curation, communications or print journalism or digital storytelling mediums
have proven experience telling compelling stories for different in formal learning outlets
have strong research skills with demonstrated commitment to learning, and maintain up-to-date knowledge with the literature and practices of learning and interpretation issues in contemporary museums;
be a diplomatic and collaborative team player with proven leadership and facilitation skills; and
have excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Chinese.

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.

16-01-2025

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:

Crystal Yu /+852 22000114

Find more opportunities on our M+ Museum page.

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