The Vesterheim Norwegian–American Museum in Decorah, Iowa, has just been given an 8,000 sq m building designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta. The Commons, as the extension is called, will contain…

A museum of Polish history and an expansion of the Polish Army Museum have opened to the public. Both were designed by local architect WXCA and both are located in…

India is planning to build the world’s largest museum in the centre of New Delhi. The Yuge Yugeen Bharat will collect artefacts covering 5,000 years of Indian history in a…

A museum is about to open in Madrid housing 160,000 precious items owned by the Spanish royal family. It will exhibit around 650 of them, including paintings by Goya, Velázquez,…

Chicago architect Perkins & Will has won a design competition for the Bezos Learning Center, a new facility at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. Located…

Sir David Adjaye and local architect S Ghosh & Associates have unveiled their extension to the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), which will make it the largest art and…

Qatar has unveiled five cultural venues at the 18th Venice architecture biennale. The exhibition, called Building a Creative Nation, displays renderings, studies, models and video of: Art Mill Museum, designed…

The Gilder Center, an extension of New York’s American Museum of Natural History, is opening to the public tomorrow. The centre was designed by local firm Studio Gang with a…

Five architects have been shortlisted to design a museum for the US Navy in Washington, DC. Some 80 companies expressed an interest in participating in the project, with 37 then…

The expansion and remodelling of the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City by Taller and Mauricio Rocha has been crowned the winner of the 2023 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP).…

Construction has begun on the $370m Museum of the Viking Age in Oslo

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…