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Your AI tour guide for M+

Photograph a permitted work in M+ and explore its maker, period and meaning through the history Lensmark can source.

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M+

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Take a photo and read the work's sourced story

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Illustrative collection

  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your M+ walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

The phone demo shows Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam as a general illustration, not an M+ work. The illustrative collection shows other places, not a record of a museum visit.

What the M+ collection covers

M+ brings visual art, design and architecture, moving image and Hong Kong visual culture into one collection. Its twentieth- and twenty-first-century focus connects objects across disciplines and borders. M+ Collection

A television beneath a chair, a marble chair and a pencil drawing show how familiar objects can become artworks. These examples come from M+ collection records, which give a starting point for exploring each maker and medium.

Its collection strengths include twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture.

  • TV Chair

    Date
    1973

    An upward-facing television sits beneath a transparent chair seat. M+ records Paik's installation as object 2015.607, combining a wooden chair, acrylic and a live television broadcast.

    Read the museum record
  • Marble Chair

    Date
    2008

    Ai Weiwei made this chair-shaped sculpture from marble. The donated work belongs to the M+ Sigg Collection and is recorded as object 2012.66.

    Read the museum record
  • The Long Now

    Date
    2012

    Ho Sin Tung used pencil on paper for this drawing. M+ records it as object 2013.518 and discusses it in relation to the artist's imagined film festival.

    Read the museum record

These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

Check the photography rules first

M+ welcomes personal, non-commercial photography without flash; video is allowed only when specified, and commercial professional photography or videography requires advance arrangement with the museum. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs and object- or space-specific restrictions before taking a photo. M+ photography policy

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