Professor Florian Knothe is the Director of the University Museum and Art Gallery and an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities, HKU. He serves as the MA in Museum Studies programme director and has taught Museum Studies at undergraduate and post-graduate level for more than 15 years. Florian trained in conservation, art history and heritage law, and lectures and teaches internationally. With the Dean of the Faculty of Arts he held a Mellon Foundation grant to investigate and initiate Museum Studies at HKU.

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Courses taught: 7002, 7006, 7013

Dr. Harald P. Kraemer is an art scholar, curator and designer with a focus on Museum Studies and Media in Museums. As a pioneer of Museum Informatics & Digital Collections  (PhD, University of Trier) and through his involvement in 40 museums in the planning, design and production of collection/museum management systems, digital online strategies, interactive online and offline media applications with cultural themes and e-learning courses, he is counted among the founders of the Digital Humanities. Part of his research deals with museums and their digital intangible cultural heritage.

In Vienna, Dr. Kraemer completed the first MA programme for exhibition curators and has since curated and designed over 80 exhibitions. He has written and published widely on applied museology, museum documentation, media in museums, curating, and contemporary art and has taught these topics at universities in Bern, Glasgow, Hong Kong, and Zurich, among others. He was the co-founder of the European Master of Excellence Program Media Arts Cultures and Head of the MA Program Curating Art & Media (SCM, 2014-2021). Since 2022 he has been at UMAG/HKU where he curated and published Couplet Pair Rebus. The principle of cause and effect in art. Next project: 8 times 8: serial and systemic narratives in art (UMAG 2025).

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Courses taught: 7003, 7007, 7008, 7014

Professor Joost C.A. Schokkenbroek joined HKU's Faculty of Arts as Professor Museum Studies in August 2023. After finishing his history study at Leiden University (PhD in 2008), Schokkenbroek set off on a long international journey spanning several decades, serving both the museum sector and academia. Between 1988 and 2023 he held various curatorial and management positions in four different museums covering three continents - lately as Museum Director of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum. Schokkenbroek was Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – with his inaugural address emphasizing the importance of material culture as sources of information - and Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He has lectured on history, heritage and museology at universities and museums in a.o. the Netherlands, Germany, UK, Russia, Canada, USA, Japan and China. Schokkenbroek has promoted his various fields of interest widely via radio and television, has (co)authored five books, has been (chief) editor of many monographs, and published dozens of peer reviewed articles - often related to (maritime) history, museum matters, and the importance of artifacts.​

Courses taught: 7001, 7004, 7010, 7011, 7012

Dr. Shuo Sue Hua is Associate Curator at the University of Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG). She lectures on art market studies from a transcultural perspective. Shuo received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD from the University of Hong Kong. She was a Lee-Hysan visiting PhD at the Cluster of Global Art History, University of Heidelberg. Her research interest focuses on the intersection of East Asian paintings, exhibition and collecting history and culture. Shuo’s recent research (peer-reviewed) has been published with the University of Amsterdam Press, Routledge and Sehepunkte. She is currently working on a manuscript on exhibiting and commoditizing modern Chinese painters in Hong Kong.

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Course taught: 7009

Professor Marc Walton joined the Museum Studies program at HKU in the fall of 2024. Prior to this, he held senior leadership positions at Hong Kong's M+ (Head of Conservation and Research) and in academia as co-director of Northwestern University's Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts where he was also Research Professor of Materials Science. There he led multiple scientific projects investigating art objects in collaboration with cultural heritage institutions representing a broad range of disciplines (from anthropology to contemporary art) and geographical reach (both U.S. and internationally). He has also held positions at the Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) after receiving training in art history, conservation and archaeological science at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts and the University of Oxford. Professor Walton's areas of research have focused primarily on the manufacture and trade of archaeological objects and on developing imaging technologies in the field of conservation science. He has more recently delved into sustainable collections care. These efforts have resulted in over 100 peer-reviewed articles.

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Courses taught: 7015, 7016

Dr. Sarah Ng is a Curator at the University Museum and Art Gallery and co-teaches the Art History Department’s Museum Studies course. She is a Chinese art specialist with 10 years curatorial and teaching experience. Sarah trained in conservation and art history and, besides teaching at HKU, has lectured in art and curatorship at HKUST, CUHK, Baptist University and Lingnan University.

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Course taught: 7005