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Museum building designs

Museum buildings designs and architects

e-architect select museum building designs from around the World. Discover architecture projects information, news and pictures of the best new building designs globally.

We feature the best new tourist attractions and cultural buildings around the world. Find photos of major modern architectural examples across the globe.

Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar Building

March 29, 2020May 10, 2018 by David McManus
Museum Voorlinden

RIBA Award for this building design by Kraaijvanger Architects with museum owner Joop van Caldenborgh: the new building displays his collection of contemporary art in a “modern but classical” symmetrical building: an elegant white colonnade, six parallel walls extending into the landscape.

Categories Holland architecture design Tags Museum building designs

Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo

March 9, 2020May 7, 2018 by Adrian Welch
Musashino Art University Museum & Library steps

A library project by Sou Fujimoto Architects for one of the distinguished art universities in Japan: a new library building and refurbishment of the existing building into an art gallery, completed in 2010. The warm wooden interior provides enticing places to linger and read.

Categories Tokyo architecture designs Tags Library building designs, Museum building designs

Ota Art Museum & Library, Gunma, Japan

October 7, 2020May 3, 2018 by Isabelle Lomholt
Ota Art Museum Library in Gunma Prefecture

About 10,000 people use Ota City Station every day, but few people walk in front of the station, shopping streets are quiet. To try to bring life back in front of Ota Station akihisa hirata architecture office have designed Ota Art Museum & Library.

Categories Tokyo architecture designs Tags Interior designs architects, Library building designs, Museum building designs

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Expansion

March 21, 2021May 2, 2018 by David McManus
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Building

Design: Snøhetta, architects. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to open the transformed SFMOMA building to the public on Saturday, May 14, 2016, offering nearly three times the previous exhibition space.

Categories San Francisco building designs Tags Art galleries buildings, Museum building designs

Sir John Monash Centre Villers-Bretonneux

October 31, 2020April 29, 2018 by Isabelle Lomholt
Sir John Monash Centre in Villers Bretonneux

On Wednesday 25th of April 2018, ANZAC day, the Australian Government opened the new immersive museum experience, the Sir John Monash Centre designed by Cox Architecture with Williams, Abrahams, Lampro.

Categories France architecture design Tags Museum building designs

Grand Rapids Art Museum – GRAM Michigan

February 10, 2024April 20, 2018 by Adrian Welch
Grand Rapids Art Museum Michigan GRAM building

The Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan is home to one of the oldest museums in the Mid-West. The new museum is designed through the integration of the arts and technology, that aimed for high-level certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).

Categories America architecture news Tags Museum building designs

National Museum of Ceramics Princessehof

November 1, 2020April 3, 2018 by Adrian Welch
National Museum of Ceramics Princessehof in Leeuwarden

i29 interior architects transform National Museum of Ceramics Princessehof in Leeuwarden, NL. Leeuwarden is the European Capital of Culture 2018, and museum Princessehof celebrates its 100th birthday, the motive for a major renovation of the building.

Categories Holland architecture design Tags Interior designs architects, Museum building designs

Cloud Garden of General Yisabu, Gangwon-do

January 30, 2020March 31, 2018 by Adrian Welch
Cloud Garden of General Yisabu, Gangwon-do

‘I am searching for a design language to embody the eastern concept of ‘Yi,’ in the futuristic way. This is an exploration of what CAA can do to bring eastern culture and futurism together.’ – Liu Haowei, architect

Categories Korea architecture design Tags Museum building designs

The Japanese Sword Museum in Tokyo, Japan

April 7, 2020February 18, 2018 by Isabelle Lomholt
The Japanese Sword Museum

The Japanese Sword Museum, designed by Maki and Associates, exhibiting some of the best swords in Japan over the last fifty years, has recently moved to a new site due to the physical deterioration of its previous home.

Categories Tokyo architecture designs Tags Interior designs architects, Museum building designs

Kokillen Museum Building in Fagersta

October 25, 2020February 14, 2018 by Isabelle Lomholt
Kokillen

Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter designed Kokillen. Kokillen is a black iron imprint formed by the site and program molded in a volume that relates to the situation and public space surrounding it.

Categories Sweden architecture design Tags Museum building designs

The Bauhaus Promenade Museum Dessau

September 23, 2023January 31, 2018 by Isabelle Lomholt
The Bauhaus Promenade Museum in Dessau

The Bauhaus Promenade Museum in Dessau was designed by Matteo Cainer Architects. To capture the spirit of the Bauhaus is to recognise the scale and vision of one of the most important movements in 20th century contemporary design.

Categories Germany architecture design Tags Museum building designs

The Getty Center: Los Angeles Museum Building

August 17, 2023January 29, 2018 by David McManus
The Getty Center Los Angeles museum building

The Getty Center Los Angeles, CA, USA – designed by Richard Meier architect – The Getty Center building in the Brentwood neighborhood, celebrated Californian architecture: design information and pictures.

Categories Los Angeles building designs Tags Art galleries buildings, Museum building designs

Caixa Forum Building in Madrid

September 8, 2021January 15, 2018 by Isabelle Lomholt
Caixa Forum Madrid

Updated photos by Simon Garcia. The Caixa Forum was designed by the world-famous Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron from 2001 to 2007. The building combined an old abandoned electrical station with new construction of floors which are encased with oxidized cast-iron

Categories Madrid architecture designs Tags Cultural Centre buildings, Museum building designs

Messner Mountain Museum Corones, South Tyrol

February 13, 2025January 9, 2018 by David McManus
Messner Mountain Museum Corones in South Tyrol

Remembering Architect Zaha Hadid – a key recent building: embedded within the summit of Mount Kronplatz, 2,275m above sea level at the centre South Tyrol’s most popular ski resort, this daring building is surrounded by alpine peaks.

Categories Italy architecture buildings Tags Museum building designs, Nature building designs

Moesgaard Museum Extension: Moesgård Aarhus

December 6, 2024January 7, 2018 by Adrian Welch
Moesgaard Museum extension Aarhus building

e-architect director Isabelle Lomholt reviews new Moesgård Museum building design by Henning Larsen Architects, “I felt a slight apprehension when hearing of the new home for Moesgård, but I am delighted with the massive unobtrusive building”.

Categories Aarhus architecture designs Tags Museum building designs

Illuminations of Canadian Museum of History

January 15, 2025December 11, 2017 by Isabelle Lomholt
Illuminations of Canadian Museum of History

After two years of work, Lightemotion, for GSM Project, has added another noteworthy project to its list with the lighting design for Gatineau’s Canadian Museum of History.

Categories Montreal buildings designs Tags Lighting building designs, Museum building designs, Public realm building designs

Reimagining Wordsworth in Grasmere, Cumbria

February 19, 2020December 11, 2017 by Isabelle Lomholt
Reimagining Wordsworth

Lake District National Park Authority Planning Committee members gave their approval for the Wordsworth Trust’s proposed £6.2m development project Reimagining Wordsworth designed by Purcell Architects.

Categories England architecture design Tags Historic buildings design, Museum building designs
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