The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) is a dedicated museum that showcases the exquisite artefacts from Palace Museum’s collections and collaborates with other museums in research, exhibitions, education and public programmes.  The museum comprises 7 800 square metres of gallery space for standing and special exhibitions on Palace Museum’s collections of paintings, calligraphy, antiquities and historical objects, as well as thematic displays on world cultures and civilisations. 

Graduate Intern (Hong Kong Palace Museum – Collection Management)

The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority welcomes exceptional talent with a passion to realise the vision and mission of making the West Kowloon Cultural District a prime local and international destination for arts, culture and entertainment.

If you are passionate about arts and culture and looking for an internship experience, join the West Kowloon Graduate Internship Programme to learn about and explore one of the most important cultural projects in Hong Kong. 

A unique opportunity for graduates interested in developing a career in the arts and culture industry. Interns will work closely with professional staff in the authority full-time for a period of 18 months.

You will be responsible for:

• assisting the Manager, Collection Management to collaborate with the Curatorial Affairs Section and supporting the acquisition of new objects and maintaining collection documentation;
• assisting the supervisors for the implementation of effective collection cataloguing and digitisation strategies by collaborating with other relevant parties efficiently, in particularly cataloguing acquisitions with curators, and photographing new acquisitions in collaboration with photographer and digital asset manager;
• assisting the Collection Team for object rehousing.
• assisting the supervisors to support exhibition-related loan management, registration work, and onsite installation and deinstallation management when necessary;
• assisting the Assistant Manager, Digital Asset to handle image licensing requests from external parties related to the use of images related to the Museum.
• assisting the management of The Museum System (TMS) and ensure data is accurate and up-to-date in collaboration with curators and other parties; and
• performing any other ad hoc job duties as assigned by the supervisor.

You should:

• be permanent residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region at the time of appointment unless specified otherwise;
• possess a recognised university degree or equivalent;
• preferably possess 1-3 year(s) of relevant postgraduate work experience; fresh graduate is welcomed;
• have strong interest in building profession in the art and culture sector;
• have good written and verbal communication skills in both English and Chinese, proficiency in Putonghua is an advantage;
• have good hands work will be a plus; and
• be proficient in computer skills including Microsoft Office.

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.

20-08-2024

Data collected will only be used for job application processing. Your data may be accessed by our appointed recruitment consultants who have agreed to keep confidence of all personal data in not less than the standards applicable to us. Applicants not being invited for interview within 4 weeks from the submission date may assume their applications unsuccessful.

All related information will be kept up to 24 months and all personal data will be destroyed afterwards.

For more information, please visit http://www.westkowloon.hk or contact:

Crystal Yu /+852 22000114