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MON · 2026-06-29 · 05:11 GMTBRIEF NSR-2026-0629-88239
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NSR-2026-0629-88239News Report·EN·Human Interest

M+ museum offers free entry to customers caught in design exhibition bottleneck

Hong Kong's M+ museum is offering ticket holders one free entry within the next three months. This decision comes after significant customer complaints arose from hours-long queues for its "Design Ah!

Ambrose LiSouth China Morning PostFiled 2026-06-29 · 05:11 GMTLean · Center-RightRead · 1 min
M+ museum offers free entry to customers caught in design exhibition bottleneck
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Hong Kong's M+ museum is offering ticket holders one free entry within the next three months. This decision comes after significant customer complaints arose from hours-long queues for its "Design Ah! Experience the Wonder of Everyday Design" exhibition, which opened over the weekend. Thousands of visitors attended the exhibition in the West Kowloon Cultural District on Sunday, facing long wait times. One visitor reported a 120-minute wait even with only two hours until closing. The museum's poor crowd management is cited as the reason for the extensive delays.

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The museum was scheduled to close in about two hours when the long queue was reported.

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A user on Threads reported a 120-minute wait time at 4:15 PM on Sunday for the exhibition.

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Thousands of visitors attended the exhibition on Sunday, paying between HK$190 and HK$400 for tickets.

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The "Design Ah! Experience the Wonder of Everyday Design" exhibition opened at the weekend.

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M+ museum offers free entry to ticket holders due to poor crowd management and long queues.

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Hong Kong’s M+ museum has offered ticket holders one free entry in the next three months after poor crowd management led to hours-long queues for an exhibition that opened at the weekend, prompting a wave of customer complaints.The venue’s “Design Ah! Experience the Wonder of Everyday Design” exhibition in West Kowloon Cultural District drew thousands of visitors on Sunday, who paid either HK$190 (US$24) for a standard price ticket or HK$400 for a combo admitting two adults and one child, among other options.Disgruntled visitors took to the social media platform Threads to vent their dissatisfaction, with user kaneckk06 posting on Sunday evening that the queue still showed a 120-minute wait time at 4.15pm, even though the museum was scheduled to close in about two hours.
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