China, Hong Kong

Assistant Curator, Collection Assistant, Collection Management Assistant, Collections Curator No deadline

Assistant Curator (Collections)

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Published on 17 Jan 2024

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. In Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, we are building one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world, with a bold ambition to establish ourselves as one of the world’s leading cultural institutions. Our aim is to create a new kind of museum that reflects our unique time and place, a museum that builds on Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia’s twenty-first century.

You will be responsible for:

Working closely with Curator of Collections in organising information about the M+ Collections and support efficient delivery of curatorial responsibilities, including cataloguing, documenting, writing, and preparing exhibition labels, and external presentations related to the M+ Collections for the wider museum;
Ensuring that the museum’s high standards in cataloguing are upheld for objects from the areas of Design & Architecture, Moving Image, and Visual Art, with great attention to detail and preferably good with numbers;
Conducting research into the M+ Collections including provenance, exhibition history, bibliographic references and technical information; and
Supporting Curator of Collections with day-to-day administrative tasks as needed.

You should:

possess a recognised university degree, preferably in Art History or equivalent;
be punctual and highly collaborative; and
have 4-5 years’ experience in a curatorial role, preferably within a museum environment,
possess working proficiency in Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese) and English;
demonstrate a passion for 20th and 21st century visual culture;
have prior experience using The Museum System (TMS), or other collections management software; and
Candidate with less experience will be considered as Curatorial Assistant.

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.

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