M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District, opens to public today

M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong, opens to the public today with three weekends of celebratory programmes for everyone to enjoy.

M+ staged a lion dance performance to celebrate its opening today. The performance was hosted by Victor Lo, Chairman of the M+ Board, Betty Fung, Chief Executive Officer of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director, M+, Doryun Chong, Deputy Director, Curatorial, and Chief Curator, M+, Veronica Castillo, Deputy Director, Collection and Exhibition as well as John Wicks, Deputy Director, Museum Operations, M+.

Online reservations for free admission to M+ for the first two weeks (12 to 28 November 2021) have been available since last week. The museum has received overwhelming responses with a record of over 90,000 reservations as of 11 November 2021.

For details on M+’s registration arrangements, opening hours and opening programmes, please visit the M+ website or call our hotline at 2200 0217.

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About M+

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, it is 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. M+ is 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 the international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia’s twenty-first century.

About the West Kowloon Cultural District

The West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the largest and most ambitious cultural projects in the world. Its vision is to create a vibrant new cultural quarter for Hong Kong on forty hectares of reclaimed land located alongside Victoria Harbour. With a varied mix of theatres, performance spaces, and museums, the West Kowloon Cultural District will produce and host world-class exhibitions, performances, and cultural events, providing twenty-three hectares of public open space, including a two-kilometre waterfront promenade.