Museum of the Future in Dubai Building

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The $136m oval building design is genuinely striking. Poetry by UAE Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum repeats in patterns across its shiny exterior. Light enters the building through the perforated text, bathing visitors in glowing Arabic script.

Topaz Museum in Delta, Utah, USA

Topaz Museum in Delta Utah

Designed by Sparano + Mooney Architecture The Topaz Museum is a cultural facility that provides information about the internment of more than 11,000 Japanese Americans during WWII at the nearby Topaz Internment Camp site.

Museum of Tomorrow Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Museum of Tomorrow Rio de Janeiro

Design: Santiago Calatrava architect. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has inaugurated a new science museum in Rio de Janeiro that she hopes will become one of the Olympic city’s must-see destinations.

Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum Building

Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum Building interior

Design: Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Architects: pattern is an important element of Middle Eastern architecture, French architects design UAE building with double dome 590 ft (180 m) in diameter, with randomly-perforated woven material, creating speckled shadows.

Polish Vodka Museum Warsaw, Poland

Polish Vodka Museum Warsaw building

Polish Vodka Museum Warsaw building design by Nizio Design International studio – the first Polish Vodka Museum in the world openson the premises of a revitalized 19th century vodka factory complex.

Glenstone Museum Pavilions, Potomac, Maryland

Pavilions Glenstone Museum

Glenstone Museum Pavilions, Potomac, design by Thomas Phifer and Partners – an installation surveying the breadth of its internationally renowned collection will be one of the inaugural presentations in its new building, the Pavilions, opening on October 4.

D-Day Museum Portsmouth Building, Hampshire

D-Day Story Portsmouth building

Hampshire County Council Property Services complete transformation of D-Day Museum Portsmouth: the architecture of the original 1980s building is revealed, exposing the large circular exhibition hall, containing the Overlord Embroidery, and enabling this principal form to be legible both inside and out.

Museum in Wangwu Mountain Geopark China

Museum in Wangwu Mountain World GeoPark

Wangwu Mountain National Geopark is typical texture which owns a series of special scientific significance, rarity and aesthetic value. It recorded the change process of the 2.5 billion year old north China sea and land in detail.

Museum in Yuntai Mountain Geopark of China

Museum in Yuntai Mountain Geopark of China

Museum in Yuntai Mountain Geopark of China – the design intentionally takes the form of mountains, using Chinese character “山”, meaning ‘mountain’ in English, as a metaphor of architecture, emphasizing the sense of place

Dongting Lake Museum in Yueyang City

Dongting Lake Museum in Yueyang City

Dongting Lake Ecological Economic Zone Planning Museum is a large-scale museum building, designed by Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University, located in the cultural pavilion area of Dongting Lake Expo Park in Junshan District.

World Museum in Vienna, Austrian Building

World Museum in Vienna

Following an international open competition in 2013, Hoskins Architects, in collaboration with Ralph Appelbaum Associates, were appointed to redevelop the Weltmuseum Wien’s exhibition and visitor facilities.

Dinosaur Egg Museum, Qinglong Mountain

Dinosaur Egg Museum in Qinglong Mountain National Geo-Park

Dinosaur Egg Museum in Qinglong Mountain National Geo-Park, China, design by The Architectural and Urban Planning Design & Research Institute: the building form is ‘given’ collectively by dinosaurs from 80 million years ago.