Collection and Exhibition Intern

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.

The M+ Internship Programme 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 2025 to August 2026.

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 Head, Collection, Archives and Library, as the mentor, the intern will also have the opportunity to work closely with the Registration teams (Collection and Loans & Exhibitions), the Rights & Images, Collection Information and Archives & Library teams.

You will be able to

REGISTRATION / Collection

• 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

REGISTRATION / Loans & Exhibitions

• 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

RIGHTS & IMAGES

• Assist in collection and exhibition installation photography
• Assist in securing copyright licences for collection objects and/or exhibitions

COLLECTION INFORMATION

• Assist in object information cleanup and enrichment within the collection management database
• Assist with the development of support documentation and training materials

ARCHIVES & LIBRARY

• Assist in object documentation of archival materials and publications
• Assist in operation of the Research Centre and public programmes

You need to

• Be a permanent resident of the Hong Kong Special Administrative region
• Possess a recognised 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)

Please submit your application on or before 29 May 2025 via online application.

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.

29-05-2025

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:

Shelia Ng /+852 22000212

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