M+ Museum
Curator, Learning and Engagement
At M+, Hong Kong’s global museum for visual culture, I served as Curator of Learning and Engagement during the pivotal pre-opening phase. My role focused on bridging the gap between the museum and the public by developing five core audience pillars: Schools, Youth, Access, Family, and Community.
I worked to widen access to the arts through M+ Rover, a travelling creative studio bringing the museum experience directly to classrooms. Working alongside commissioned artists, I curated educational content and produced essential resources for teachers. I also directed the M+ Summer Camp, fostering creativity in hundreds of students through workshops led by local artists, architects, and filmmakers. Beyond programming, I advocated for an inclusive museum culture by helping build the Access Task Force and spearheading M+ Outreach Access. To support these initiatives, I partnered with educators and community organisers to deliver specialised accessibility training for exhibition guides as well as guided tours for students with specific learning needs.
M+ Rover 2018: A Teacher’s Resource Pack
M+ Rover 2020/2021: A Teacher’s Resource Pack
Image Description from left to right: M+ Rover is a mobile creative studio truck for outreach to different schools and communities. These images document the 2018 M+ Rover tour, capturing interactive moments as a commissioned artist transforms the travelling studio into an immersive learning environment. Featured activities include throwing balls into the truck’s windows and repurposing everyday objects like brooms into musical instruments, inviting visitors to engage creatively with the space.
Image Description from left to right: Collaborating with artists to repurpose everyday objects—such as brooms, basketball hoops, and wooden tools—into instruments of play and inquiry, students engage in physical play, test artist-made props, and interact with the mobile exhibition. An exhibition panel, repurposed from a foldable, rounded table, prompts viewers with the question: “What is the most powerful tool?”
Image Description from left to right: Snapshots from the 2018 M+ Summer Camp. The images highlight the camp’s diversity of practice: a group portrait of the student cohort and artist instructors; a sound-art workshop utilising found materials; and a collaborative food design session exploring toasts browned in variant gradients and textures.
Image Description from left to right: Documentation of the M+ Outreach Access programme for students with specific learning needs. Students are seen engaging with contemporary art, guided by an educator, through accessible touchpoints—from guided observation and physical interaction with sculptural forms inside the exhibition to immersive, tactile art-making sessions.
Learning research and
trial programmes
Recognising the need to build a shared language around museum education, I organised ‘Open Up: Museum Learning in the 21st Century.’ This talk series brought together local and international voices to discuss the future of visitor experience—from visual thinking strategies to the role of exhibition guides.
To ensure our opening programs were evidence-based, I also led extensive research collaborations with external educators. These studies examined how visitors engage with interpretive text, tested new in-gallery trails for families and schools, and mapped the learning motivations of our future audience.
Photo and Video credit: M+, Hong Kong