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.
Allentown Art Museum Leaves Its Venturi, Scott Brown Addition for a New Studios Architecture Building
The Allentown Art Museum is moving to a new Studios Architecture building at Tenth and Hamilton Streets, leaving the future of its 2012...
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Wisdome Stockholm by Elding Oscarson
Elding Oscarson extends the Swedish Museum of Technology in Stockholm with Wisdome, a free-form LVL gridshell that spans 26 by 48 metres over...
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Zumthor’s Three New Buildings Open at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen
Peter Zumthor's Wyss Museum, Ammann Pavilion and Erlen Torhaus open at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, nearly doubling the museum's park.
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Frida Escobedo Studio to Design MALBA Underground Wing in Buenos Aires
MALBA has tapped Frida Escobedo Studio to build a subterranean expansion beneath Plaza Perú, doubling its exhibition space by 2029 or 2030.
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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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