News - Hong Kong planned Museum Plus gets executive director

The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority has announced that Lars Nittve, a museum director and curator with years of experience heading London’s Tate Gallery of Modern Art and Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, has been appointed Executive Director, Museum Plus ( M+), a groundbreaking new museum concept planned at the future West Kowloon Cultural District. The appointment is effective January 2011.
M+ has been envisionned as a forward-looking cultural institution focusing on 20th to 21st-century visual culture, with four initial broad groupings including design, popular culture, moving image and visual art (including ink art). Now they just need to build the museum!