The Statue of Liberty–Ellis Island Foundation is to spend $100m on the refurbishment and extension of a museum that recalls the history of migration to New York. The 34-year-old, 137,000…

New York architect Diller Scofidio + Renfro has revealed its expansion of The Broad contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles, which it designed in 2015. The plan includes a…

The southern Norwegian coastal town of Kristiansand is about to open a gallery in a converted grain silo. Kunstsilo Nordica, designed by Barcelona firms Mestres Wåge Arquitectes, Mendoza Partida and…

New York architect SO–IL has unveiled its design for a 7,200 sq m museum at Williams College in Massachusetts. The facility will contain 15,000 exhibits as well as spaces for…

The extension and renovation of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), designed by Canadian firm Hariri Pontarini Architects, has been announced. The OpenROM project will refurbish 86,000 sq ft of space…

Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron has revealed its plans for Qatar’s Lusail Museum, a five-storey, 30m-tall structure with 11,000 sq m of floor space that will hold the world’s…

Rome has settled on a plan to turn an old military technology factory on Via Guido Reni in the Flaminio district into a forest-themed science museum. Italian architecture firm ADAT…

UK-headquartered architect RSHP has unveiled its designs for the Bayeux Tapestry museum, which has occupied Bayeux’s 17th Century Grand Séminaire for the last 40 years. The new museum will be…

Danish architect Lundgaard & Tranberg has won a competition to design the $30m refurbishment of a Viking ship museum in Roskilde, eastern Denmark. The firm beat a starry field of…

Some things take longer than expected. Next year sees the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum on the Giza Plateau outside Cairo. It’s 22 years since Egypt’s then-president Hosni Mubarak…

The Fenix Museum of Migration in Rotterdam, a project commissioned by the philanthropic Droom en Daad Foundation and designed by China’s Mad Architects, is due to open to the public…

First conceived in 1992, the world’s biggest museum is expected to open this year. GCR’s David Rogers got the chance to take a look. The scale of Grand Egyptian Museum’s…

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…