Museum
Museum architecture gives culture a physical home, and this category collects the buildings doing it most memorably. Explore galleries, cultural centers, and landmark museums where light, sequence, and form shape the visitor experience. With photos, drawings, and critique, these features unpack what makes museum design so influential.
George Lucas’s Narrative Art Museum Set to Open in LA in 2026
George Lucas's museum of narrative art, designed by Ma Yansong, opens in Los Angeles on September 22, 2026.
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Hangzhou Empathy Museum by TAOA
Hangzhou Empathy Museum: a museum peeling back its skin to reveal a serene spiritual habitat to the city.
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Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi by Mecanoo
Mecanoo builds the largest natural history museum in the Middle East as a landscape rather than an object: 35,000 m2 of sculpted volumes...
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Dinosauria Museum Prague by archicraft
archicraft designed Dinosauria Museum Prague as a sequence of atmospheric rooms built around one of the world's largest private collections of dinosaur skeletons,...
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BIG Completes First Art Museum With Suzhou MoCA on Jinji Lake
BIG's first completed art museum, a 60,000 sqm cluster of pavilions, has opened on Suzhou's Jinji Lake.
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Peter Zumthor’s LACMA: David Geffen Galleries Open April 2026
Peter Zumthor's David Geffen Galleries at LACMA will open on April 19, 2026, concluding a two-decade campus transformation. This article explores the Swiss...
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Beijing Art Museum Takes Shape: Snøhetta and BIAD’s Cultural Landmark Underway
The Beijing Art Museum, designed by Snøhetta in collaboration with the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, is set to become a major cultural...
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Zaha Hadid Architects Designs Bishoftu International Airport for Ethiopian Airlines
Zaha Hadid Architects has begun work on Bishoftu International Airport, a major new aviation hub designed for Ethiopian Airlines near Addis Ababa. Planned...
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