Latest arrangements of West Kowloon Cultural District venues

In view of the latest social distancing measures announced by the Government today, the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (the Authority) announced that existing arrangements for various venues in the West Kowloon Cultural District (the District) will be extended until 3 February 2022:

1. M+ will be closed until 3 February 2022. Visitors who have pre-registered to visit M+ in the abovementioned period are invited to note the closure arrangement of the museum and re-book their visit. M+’s designated reservation platform will continue to notify members of the public who have pre-registered to visit M+ during the abovementioned period through email or SMS of the latest closure arrangement.

2. As announced previously, performances and programmes from 7 January to 20 January have already been rescheduled or cancelled. To comply with the latest social distancing measures announced by the government, performances and programmes scheduled to be held from 21 January to 3 February in the performing arts venues in the District will not take place as scheduled either. Ticketholders should retain their tickets and visit the District’s website (www.westkowloon.hk) for details of rescheduling or refund, which will be announced in due course. Online ticketing and ticketing hotline service (+852 2200 0022) is available.

Since the pandemic, the Authority has strengthened anti-epidemic measures in all its facilities to ensure the safety of the public and its employees, including increasing the frequency of cleaning of public places. Except exempted persons, those who enter museum and performing arts venues of the District must use the LeaveHomeSafe mobile application.

The Authority will continue to comply with the Government’s latest measures and closely monitor the situation to make timely adjustments to venue opening arrangements and programmes.

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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.

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.