News Work starts on $370m Vikings museum near Oslo Construction has begun on the $370m Museum of the Viking Age in Oslo
News Beijing sets target of building 245 museums over next 12 years China’s state news agency, Xinhua, has announced plans by the Beijing Municipal Cultural Heritage Bureau to increase museum construction in the city. The plan states that by 2035 there will…
News David Chipperfield Architects designs extension for Athens’ Archaeological Museum The Berlin office of David Chipperfield Architects has won the design competition for a 20,000 sq m extension to Athens’ National Archaeological Museum, which houses prehistoric and ancient art. The…
News OMA reorganises and expands Turin’s Egyptian Museum The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has unveiled its redesign of Turin’s Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum), the world’s oldest institution of its kind. The museum was founded in 1824 in…
News Chengdu builds science-fiction museum designed by ZHA Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has unveiled its futuristic design for a science fiction museum now being built in Chengdu, China, conceived by the architect as an asymmetrical star that floats…
News Iowa’s new-look Norwegian-American Museum to be ready by summer Norwegian architect Snøhetta says the expansion of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa, which it designed, will be finished by this summer. Design work on the new, 8,000-sq-m building…
News Adjaye Associates and MVRDV among contenders for Portland Museum of Art expansion Four teams have been shortlisted to design the extension and renovation of the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in the New England state Maine. The teams vying for the contract…
News Work starts on Foster + Partners’ Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Construction has begun on the extension and renovation of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, designed by UK architect Foster + Partners, which will increase the museum’s area by half and…
News Selldorf and SOM to modernise Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum Selldorf Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) have been chosen to create a modernisation plan for the Hirshhorn contemporary art museum in Washington, DC. The duo will expand its…
News Abu Dhabi unveils design for major new natural history museum Abu Dhabi has unveiled plans for its Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, designed by architects Mecanoo, which will be the new home of ‘Stan’, a mostly complete 11.7-metre-long fossil of…