As the Hong Kong Museum of Art celebrates its 60th anniversary, its director Maria Mok tells us what it’s like to prep for the major milestone—from creating art-inspired selfie filters for visitors, to lunch meetings where she manages to mix business with pleasure
Changes are happening at the Hong Kong Museum of Art as it celebrates its 60th birthday this year. Alongside a series of new exhibitions focused on historic Chinese art at the institution, which is the oldest art museum in the city, there’s also an emphasis on the appreciation of art in the digital age: visitors can now “walk” into an animated world of traditional Chinese landscape paintings, and take selfies with specially created Instagram filters inspired by the pieces on display.
Behind it all is Maria Mok, the museum’s director, who has been in the role since 2019. Here, she walks Tatler through a day in her life: from keeping herself in the know by browsing on social media, to why she thinks part of her job feels like “detective work”.
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