M+ Opening Reservations and Traffic Arrangements

M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture, located in the West Kowloon Cultural District (West Kowloon) opens to the public on Friday, 12 November 2021, at 10am.

Online reservations for free admission to M+ for the first two weeks (12 to 28 November 2021) have been available since last week. Most of the admission timeslots for the opening weekend are now fully booked. Walk-in visits will be allowed but waiting times for entry may be extended, especially in the afternoons. To ensure smooth admission, M+ advises the public to make reservations ahead of their visit and arrive at the museum within their designated timeslot. Reservations can be made via the M+ website, West Kowloon website and through the West Kowloon Mobile App.

Due to the large number of visitors who have already pre-registered for admission, M+ will not accommodate group visits during the first reservation period from 12 to 28 November 2021. A further announcement providing details on pre-registration for local group tour visits organised by licensed tour operators will be made next week.

In addition, as a grand opening ceremony will be held on Thursday, 11 November 2021, Zone F Car Park in the District will be closed from midnight to 11:59pm on the same day, while Art Park (Zone E) Car Park will remain open.

In anticipation of a large number of visitors during the initial period after the opening of M+, West Kowloon urges visitors to use public transportation services where possible. Starting from 12 November, special departures for Route 296D will detour to two bus stops at Museum Drive and the Art Park respectively. Hong Kong Water Taxi will also operate an additional route stopping by West Kowloon in the afternoon of Sundays and Public Holidays.

Transport information for visiting the West Kowloon Cultural District is as follows:

MTR:
Exit from MTR Kowloon Station Exit E4 or E5. Walk along Nga Cheung Road to join Museum Drive (about 5 minutes).

Museum Drive Bus Stop:
Daily: Green minibus 26, 74, or 74S
Weekends and public holidays: 296D (special departures available on 12 November)
Friday, weekends, and public holidays: Green minibus 77M, 26D, or 74D

Austin Road West Bus Stop:
215X, 261B, 281A, or 215P

Nga Cheung Road Bus Stop:
8, 11, 280X, or 203E

Western Harbour Crossing Bus Stop:
904, 905, 914, 930, 934, 936, 948, 960, 961, 962B, 962X, 967, 968, 969, 970, 971, 973, or 978

Water Taxi:
Two special departures to West Kowloon will be arranged every Sunday and on public holidays. The route will start from Central Ferry Pier No. 9 and has a calling point at West Kowloon (temporary landing facility at Yau Ma Tei Typhoon Shelter Landing No. 2) (special departures also available on Friday, 12 November)

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

Remarks

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.