Shortly after taking her examen artium, she was employed at Norwegian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, and stayed here as a curator for four decades.
[1][2] For her long tenure at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, in 2002 she was awarded the King's Medal of Merit in silver.
In 1999 she created an endowment of 1 million kr in order to establish Chinese art history as a teaching subject at the University of Oslo.
[4] Huitfeldt's 1990 book General Munthe: Eventyrer og kunstsamler i det gamle Kina covered the subject for her master's thesis.
[9] Moss Avis hoped for more books by Huitfeldt in the future to develop "our sparse literature on industrial art.
Huitfeldt pointed out that the figures and symbols in Chinese porcelain had religious and philosophical meanings that were lost in translation.