M+ Internship Programme 2026/27 Curatorial (Moving Image)

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 September 2026 to August 2027.

The Curatorial Internship offers hands-on curatorial and exhibition-making experience. Working with one of our curators as their mentor, you will assist the curatorial department on upcoming M+ exhibitions, screenings, and public programmes centred around moving image.

You will be able to:

• learn about M+, its collection and programmes;
• actively contribute and lend support to the research, planning, and execution of M+ Moving Image exhibitions, screenings, events, and other projects;
• gain hands-on production experience as you help deliver M+ Moving Image projects;
• gain exposure and a unique insight into the workings of M+; and
• Performing any other duties from time to time as reasonably assigned by M+.

You need to:

• possess a recognised university degree or equivalent qualification in creative media, art, curatorial studies, design history, architecture, film studies, art education, cultural studies, museum studies, or related subjects in humanities;
• have a strong interest in working in the museum field;
• have strong teamwork skills, organisational skills, and be detail-oriented;
• have a good command of spoken and written English and Chinese (Cantonese / Mandarin); and
• ideally have some relevant working experience (preferred, but not required).

Please submit your application on or before 29 May 2026 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.

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: