Leaders at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Paris’s Centre Pompidou, and M+ in Hong Kong signed an agreement granting unprecedented access to each museum’s holdings for increased viewership, more collaborative curation, and additional research.
The alliance emerges on the eve of M+’s fifth anniversary at its physical location in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, and just one year into MoMA director Christophe Cherix’s tenure. The agreement follows a wave of institutional resource pooling and joint acquisitions that swelled in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as museums seek to reduce overhead costs while navigating major deficits. In another shakeup earlier this year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced its forthcoming merger with Ronald Lauder’s Neue Galerie, which is set to commence in 2028.
“Museums must evolve to reflect the complexity of our world,” said M+ Museum Director Suhanya Raffel in a press statement on the alliance.
Previous collaborations between M+, home to the Sigg collection of contemporary Chinese art among thousands of other contemporary works from across Asia, and the other two museums foregrounded this agreement. The Hong Kong-based museum signed a memorandum of understanding with the MoMA in early 2025 that established shared curatorial, conservation, and scholarship objectives. And this spring, M+ and Centre Pompidou entered a strategic partnership to “strengthen the cultural dialogue” between their respective continents through joint exhibitions, collections sharing, and a funded fellowship.
