An American team of Selldorf Architects and the French arm of Studios Architecture has won the Louvre Nouvelle Renaissance design competition for renovating the world’s most visited museum. The scope…

The Hainan Science Museum has opened in Haikou, the capital of China’s southern Hainan Province. Inspired by cloud formations and the local monsoon rain forests, the 46,528-sq-m structure on the…

Saudi Arabia’s Diriyah Company has awarded a $490m contract to Al Bawani Company and the Saudi Arabian arm of Egypt’s Hassan Allam Construction to build the Saudi Arabia Museum of…

Construction has begun on the 110,000-sq-m Beijing Art Museum in the capital’s Tongzhou District, designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta and the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD). Beijing Art Museum…

Abu Dhabi’s Natural History Museum has opened to the public, taking the shape of pentagonal natural rock formations to reflect the cellular structures of the natural world. Designed by Dutch…

Norwegian architect Snøhetta has won a design competition for a 18,000-sq-m art gallery on the confluence of the Qiantang river and Hangzhou’s central water axis. The meeting of the water…

Ground has broken on the Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)-designed Misk Heritage Museum, known as “Asaan”, in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. The 40,000-sq-m development will display cultural artefacts and art, exploring traditional…

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has won a design competition for the new, 23,000-sq-m site of Hungary’s Natural History Museum in the country’s second city of Debrecen. Hungary’s Ministry…

Six finalists – a veritable who’s who of architects – have been shortlisted for a $160m extension to Kansas City, Missouri’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The 61,000-sq-ft expansion will add…

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been selected to design a 60,000 sq ft extension to a contemporary art gallery in Manhattan. The New Museum was designed by Japanese…

A 1.2ha extension of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has been designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to house part of the museum’s 20th and 21st-century collection. The wing…

The team of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and Serbian firm Bureau Cube Partners of Serbia has won an anonymous design competition for the new Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade. Working…

A team made up of Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and Italian practice Andrea Tabocchini Architecture has redesigned a gallery in Turin’s Egyptian Museum. The new “Gallery of…

The 1918-19 Greater Poland Uprising Museum in Poznan, designed by local architect WXCA, has broken ground. The museum is intended to provide “a space for shared memory”, made up of…

Norwegian architect Snøhetta has unveiled its design for a children’s museum, to be located in Omaha, Nebraska, on the banks of the Missouri. The four-storey Omaha Children’s Museum and public…

The Crow Museum of Asian Art, designed for the University of Texas by American architect Morphosis, has opened in Dallas. The museum will exhibit art from countries such as China,…

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group is to redevelop an Aldi supermarket as the Museum for Paper Art. The store, in the north of the Jutland peninsula, will be expanding from…

The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska reopens next month with the new, 42,000-sq-ft addition – the Rhonda & Howard Hawks Pavilion – designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta with local…