Assistant Curator, M+ Museum

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:

• developing educational content and operational plans for school tours, workshops, and other museum learning programmes with strong links to primary and secondary school curriculum;
• producing teaching and learning resources related to exhibitions that enrich the museum experience for school visits;
• organising professional development events for school principals and teachers;
• assisting in developing training curriculum for museum educators;
• creating evaluation frameworks and assessment tools for programme quality assurance;
• devising school recruitment strategies and managing school visit bookings with administrative staff;
• developing museum-school partnerships and engagement strategies with institutions and other educational organisations to enhance school coverage of the museum;
• conducting research in fields such as museum learning, artist-led pedagogy, teacher professional development, in-gallery learning experience, and outreach strategies with the aim of offering a range of learning tools that allow for expanded participation for school visitors; and
• assisting the Learning and Interpretation team in all events and activities with content development and administrative support.

You should:

possess a recognised university degree, preferably in education, curating and art history, anthropology, humanities, sociology, cultural management or equivalent;

• have at least 4 years of work experience in coordinating, planning and implementing learning programmes for schools; preferably in a large-scale organisation;
• show keen interest in researching various pedagogy theories, and implementing them through museum learning experience and outreach programmes;
• demonstrate research skills, interest and curiosity for visual culture, pedagogy and museum learning;
• be self-motivated and able to work independently and cooperatively with others in a fast-paced environment;
• be highly organised and detail-oriented;
• possess administrative experience preferably in project management in any arts and cultural organisations; and
• have excellent written and oral 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.

28-07-2025

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