After a decade in the making, M+ will open to the public on November 12. The building, designed by Herzog and de Meuron, is seated within Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, overlooking Victoria Harbour. Measuring 65,000 square meters, it is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world, and includes 33 galleries, three cinemas, a mediatheque, a learning hub, and a research center. Around 1,500 works from the 8,000-plus holdings in the museum’s permanent collection will be on display in six inaugural exhibitions that highlight Asian perspectives on 20th- and 21st-century visual art, design, architecture, and moving image.
Among the opening presentations are “Hong Kong: Here and Beyond,” which will spotlight Hong Kong visual culture from
