Thematic Tours

Led by our museum educators, the thematic tours feature different sections on arts and design appreciation and interactive creativity, both of which aim to provide novel learning experiences in the exhibition galleries. Students will explore multiple perspectives in their appreciation of four to five museum exhibits. By observing these artworks and raising questions about them, they will develop the interest and ability in appreciating visual culture.

Date: Every Tuesday to Friday between 3 October 2023 and 12 July 2024, except for public holidays

Time: 10:00, 11:15, 14:30 or 16:00

Duration: 60 min.

Related Workshops

Our related workshops are designed as add-ons to our tours. This additional experience acts as an extension of the thematic tours and helps students turn their in-gallery learning experience into creative exploration.

Date: The day of the thematic tour

Time: Following the thematic tour (except for the 11:15 time slot)

Duration: 60 min.

Booking for this programme throughout the year is available in three phases. This thematic tour and its related workshop is free of charge under the support of Sino Group, and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The museum can accommodate a maximum of seventy-five students for the thematic tour and its related workshops during each timeslot. The experience will be conducted in groups. Each group is limited to a maximum of twenty-five students. If there are twenty-six or more students participating during the same timeslot, M+ Educators will divide them into smaller groups. We recommend a 1:25 ratio of teachers and parents to students.

After the programme, we can arrange for the students to visit our galleries in a self-guided format depending on the circumstances (except for the Special Exhibition). If necessary, schools should allow additional time for the self-guided visit and arrange for additional teachers and parents to accompany the students to ensure their safety.

➔ Phase 3 of this programme which takes place between 20 June and 12 July 2024 is now full.

➔ Schools may click here for the important dates of the 2024/25 School Year.

This thematic tour and its related workshop is recommended for all primary school students. It is especially suitable for students who have not visited our museum before. M+ Educators will lead students to conceive part of the routes in the guided tour, encouraging them to select from M+ Collections based on their own interests and explore further.

Our museum educators will invite the inquisitive teacher who says ‘I Don’t Know’ to become the special guest in the museum learning journey of students, together, they will visit different galleries. Throughout the process, students will raise various questions about the museum and exhibits: ‘How large is the museum? Where do the exhibits come from? Why are some objects so strangely shaped, while others are untitled? How long would it take to view all of the exhibits? Who can answer all my questions?’, to take questioning as their learning tool, and explore M+ Collections from different angles.

As students raise questions about the museum, there are no right or wrong questions. When students develop their own questions under the guidance of the teacher who says ‘I Don’t Know’, students will gradually discover and learn to appreciate the curiosity in themselves and others, thereby establishing a proactive learning attitude – to learn anytime, anywhere, and dare to continuously explore the unknown.

Related workshop: Our 100 Types of Museum Experience

Beyond collecting and displaying exhibits, what else can a museum offer? Our educators invite students to participate in Free Play, where students will transform everyday objects and improvise alternative uses for them. With imagination, students will transform the museum space into different daily scenarios, giving this place alternative meanings.

Learning Outcomes

• Recognise the inclusive and open characteristics of the museum as a learning environment
• Explore the meaning of the museum's vast and diverse collection, and appreciate the importance of diversity in learning
• Cultivate the personal attitude of embracing the unknown during the learning process, thereby promoting curiosity about uncertain things
• Discover the role of self-directed learning experiences and believe in one’s own learning potential

Key Learning Areas in Connection with School Curriculum

Visual Arts

• Junior Primary: Use appropriate vocabularies and visual languages to express personal viewpoints and feelings
• Junior Primary: Identify the similarities and differences in creative ideas between oneself and peers
• Senior Primary: Guess the information conveyed by the visual presentation of works, and express personal preferences
• Senior Primary: Explore and use different media, tools, and techniques to convey specific message

General Studies

• Junior Primary: Show curiosity and interest of surroundings and the world
• Senior Pimary: Be open-minded and objective towards different views
• Senior Primary: Appreciate the need for lifelong learning to cope with the fast-changing world

This programme is the result of cross-disciplinary collaboration between M+ learning curators, educators and school teachers. Dicky Yeung, Learning and Interpretation Associate Curator, Sze Lam, Assistant Curator, and Sinman Yeung, M+ Educator, planned this programme jointly. We would like to express our gratitude to members of the M+ Teacher Roundtable, Ms Chan Chai Yan (Cheung Sha Wan Catholic Primary School) and Ms Vivien Lau Kwan Chi (Po Leung Kuk Camões Tan Siu Lin Primary School) for their input throughout the planning process.

This thematic tour and its related workshop is recommended for all primary school students.

Are there flowers that never wilt? Can a piece of cloth hang in mid-air for an extended period of time? Can paper be the chief building material for our homes? Can inventions that seem to go against all reasons today become the most commonplace items in a hundred years’ time?

This thematic tour focuses upon the design and architecture exhibits at M+. Students are introduced to the spirit of experimentation of the designers that transcended the limitations of both art and science. M+ Educators will draw upon wildly creative designs in the world and explore with students how these designers weighed between emotional impact and logical demands. They will show students how the intersecting influence of these two prominent streams of thinking resulted in wholly new perspectives.

Related Workshop: The Impossible Mission

Designers believe that limitations are what give rise to inspirations. M+ Educators invite students to challenge the limitations that lie within their own minds, and create artistic response with clay against seemingly senseless rules. The students will show their unique creative logic in this exercise, and inspire other participants to come up with cooperative solutions to resolve difficult issues together. They will join hands in completing a seemingly impossible task. (This workshop is a variation of ‘Clay Challenge’ in the Primary School Programme in the 2022/23 School Year)

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the rich expressions of design and discover the innovative thinking of designers who challenge disciplinary boundaries
• Integrate emotional and rational thinking to inspire creative problem-solving abilities and explore a spirit of adventure
• Develop communication and collaboration skills, allowing imagination and creativity to overcome the confines of individual perspectives

Key Learning Areas in Connection with School Curriculum

Visual Arts

• Junior Primary: Identify the visual and sensory effects expressed through individual visual elements
• Junior Primary: Connect different visual focus points in art works and recognize their characteristics
• Senior Primary: Analyze the aesthetics and psychological effects produced by the use of visual elements and organizational principles.
• Senior Primary: Use imagination and problem-solving skills to develop ideas.

General Studies

• Junior Primary: Identify the characteristics and changes of materials
• Senior Primary: Discuss observation and suggest simple interpretation
• Senior Primary: Appreciate the inquiring mind of scientists

This programme is the result of cross-disciplinary collaboration between M+ learning curators, educators and school teachers. Dicky Yeung, Learning and Interpretation Associate Curator, Sze Lam, Assistant Curator, and Hiuwah Li, M+ Educator, planned this programme jointly. We would like to express our gratitude to members of the M+ Teacher Roundtable, Mr Choi Chun Ip (Tsz Wan Shan Catholic Primary School) and Ms Fong Wing Laam (Ma On Shan St. Joseph’s Primary School) for their input throughout the planning process.

This programme is recommended for Primary 4–6 students to participate as a whole grade. The All-around Creative Learning Experiences features gallery visits and artmaking activities, both of which aim to provide a novel interactive learning experience for students. They will acquire a thorough understanding of M+ and M+ Collections, as well as the value of diversity that lies at the core of the museum and its visual culture.

Date: Every Tuesday to Friday between 1 November 2023 and 12 July 2024, except for public holidays

Time: 10:00 or 14:30

Duration: 120 min.

Booking for this programme throughout the year is available in three phases. The programme is free of charge under the support of Sino Group, and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The museum can accommodate seventy-six to one hundred and twenty students for this programme during each timeslot. Schools should arrange for additional teachers and parents to accompany the students to ensure their safety. We recommend a 1:15 ratio of teachers and parents to students.

➔ Phase 3 of this programme which takes place between 20 June and 12 July 2024 is now full.

➔ Schools may click here for the important dates of the 2024/25 School Year.

This programme is held in an inter-class format. All participating students will be divided into two big groups, with two classes in each group. The groups will take turns to visit the galleries and participate in the artmaking session.

A wide variety of exhibits are showcased at the M+ galleries. The gallery tour will guide students to look at the chair design at East Galleries. Through exploring the shapes, materials and functions of the chairs under the guidance of M+ Educators, students will understand the culture of different places and discover the multiple values in design objects.

During the artmaking session, M+ Educators will invite students to think like a designer and bring their imagination into reality: using large cubes and modules of different shapes and forms to create chairs and everyday objects. Will the chairs created by everyone look alike?

Before your visit, teachers can refer to the learning booklet My First Museum –– A Closer Look at the Chairs in the East Galleries for preparation.

Learning Outcomes

• Express personal opinions and feelings with art related glossaries and visual languages
• Understanding the multiple values and meanings in design objects
• Cultivate communication and collaboration skills and establish a respectful learning attitude

Key Learning Areas in Connection with School Curriculum

Visual Arts

• Senior Primary: Acknowledge the close relationship between art and daily life
• Senior Primary: Develop creative ideas from life experiences, memories, associations, and imagination

General Studies

• Senior Primary: Develop empathy and concern feelings of others
• Senior Primary: Recognise differences among people and the need to respect the rights of others