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…

Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vucic has announced plans to build a museum dedicated to tennis champion and fellow Serb, Novak Djokovic, following his gold medal win this week at the 2024…

Construction on the Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by ARTS Group, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Front Inc. has topped out in Jiangsu province, close to Shanghai. The 60,000-sq-m…

Spanish contractor Acciona has won contracts for New York’s new Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx and the renovation of the Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island. At the Hip…

UK architects Caruso St John have won a competition for the renovation of Germany’s Kunsthalle Bielefeld, the only European museum designed by modernist architect Philip Johnson, completed in 1968. Work…

The Pompidou Centre in central Paris is due to close for five years from the summer of 2025 while renovation works take place. These will include upgrades to the 1977…

Finnish firm Sigge Architects has won a design competition for the “Museum of History and the Future” in Finland’s oldest city, Turku, to celebrate its 800th birthday. Its “Squāma” proposal…

UK studio David Kohn Architects, Belgium’s noAarchitecten and Turkey’s Asli Çiçek have won an international design competition for a €90m renovation for the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent,…