Building projects

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum gains new €45m Norman Foster-designed wing

Renovation expands exhibition spaces and provides new facilities as well as creating better links with its neighbour, the Guggenheim Bilbao

São Paulo’s Museu de Arte Moderna reopens after two-year renovation

Two years after shutting its doors, MAM São Paulo returns to the same pavilion with an exhibition built to push Brazilian art past representation

Switzerland’s Fondation Beyeler opens £109.7m expansion

The Basel institution has added three new structures designed by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, while also extending its grounds

From the Bronx to the Lower East Side, New York’s museum building boom continues

Several institutional construction projects have already opened this year, with more in the pipeline

The Big Review: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art ★★★½

While the swooping building is impressive and easy to navigate, the collection is patchy and the displays are at times “bizarre”

Aperture’s new home reflects the non-profit’s commitment to ‘a democratic medium’

The publisher of photography books and magazines inaugurates its new street-level space, complete with a bookstore and gallery, on the Upper West Side this month

Malba picks architect for expansion that will double its exhibition space

The Buenos Aires museum has selected the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to lead its ambitious build-out

Metropolitan Museum breaks ground on long-awaited new wing for Modern and contemporary art

The ceremony officially kicked off construction on the wing designed by the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo

Hungary’s new government scraps National Gallery plans

The planned SANAA-designed museum for Budapest’s City Park has been cancelled, leaving the future home of Hungary’s national collection undecided

$1bn Lucas Museum of Narrative Art lifts off at long last

After almost a decade of delays and controversies, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson launch a giant space to house a 40,000-piece collection spanning from comics to Star Wars materials to a Frida Kahlo self-portrait

Bolivia’s most visited museum kicks off five-year restoration project

The Casa Nacional de Moneda in Potosí, famous for its silver objects, coining machinery and colonial paintings, will undergo repair of its roofs and stonework

New museum in Argentina honours Lola Mora, a pioneering female sculptor

Immersed in nature, the sustainably designed Lola Mora Cultural Center in San Salvador de Jujuy celebrates the late artist and her practice

Ecuador’s national museum picks new design for $100m home following pushback to original selection and resignations

After criticism on social media, the government scrapped the original selection of a design by Estudio Campo Baeza and Maoda, opting for a proposal led by the Japanese firm Sanaa

Renovation of Bolivia's national archaeology museum gives repatriated treasures pride of place

The museum in La Paz had been closed for a year; its new permanent collection exhibition includes a mummified girl repatriated from the US and an Andean sculpture that was stolen by a Swiss traveller in the 19th century

Comment | American museum expansions must go beyond glass and steel to serve modern audiences

While increasing their built footprints, US museums also need to expand their accessibility to the public. By failing to do so they risk blowing a chance to democratise new spaces at a critical time

The small Ohio town getting an Aboriginal art museum and a James Turrell 'Skyspace' installation

New Bremen is home to one of the world’s largest manufacturers of forklift trucks; the company’s chief executive wants to make it ‘the Marfa of the Midwest’

New York’s Swiss Institute buys permanent home on the Bowery

The nonprofit, which has moved around the Upper West Side, Tribeca and points in between since its founding 40 years ago, will open at 250 Bowery next spring

Obama Presidential Center opens, offering an art-filled, hopeful view of US history

The sprawling new campus on Chicago's South Side includes a rousing museum and commissions by Mark Bradford, Maya Lin, Richard Hunt, Martin Puryear and many more

Inside Refik Anadol's Dataland, the world’s first AI art museum

An immersive “laboratory of imagination” from Anadol's studio boots up in Downtown Los Angeles

Memphis Art Museum reveals opening date and inaugural exhibitions for new building

Entry to the institution’s new Herzog & de Meuron-designed mass timber home along the Mississippi River will be free to local residents in perpetuity

New photography museum in Cincinnati foregrounds the medium’s democratic power

The new FotoFocus Center gives the city’s popular photography biennial a permanent presence and an inclusive mandate

Inside the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's major expansion

The Arkansas museum now has 50% more space for its ever-expanding collection and art-and-wellness programming

Getty Center reveals details of upcoming campus renovations

In addition to replacing its famous tram, the museum will build a more inviting waiting area at the bottom of the hill and a new welcome hall at the top

Rio’s Museum of Image and Sound finally opens after 16 years in development

Located just off of Copacabana Beach, the new museum celebrates the artists and musicians that helped make the city a global cultural destination

Brandywine Conservancy and Museum picks architects for $100m expansion project

The Pennsylvania museum and land trust plans an ambitious overhaul of its campus, which will connect gallery buildings to the original studios of N.C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth

Barbados's slavery museum and memorial faces major delays

Designed by Adjaye Associates and first announced in 2021, work on the Barbados Heritage District continues with an expanded scope—but a completion date has yet to be announced

The Big Review | Lacma's David Geffen Galleries ★★★★

This vast, visionary new building on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art campus flaunts strengths in displaying antiquities

Miami Beach’s Bass Museum picks architect for new pavilion

The forthcoming expansion will add gallery space, a patio and an outdoor event area

Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center has art at its core

The centre’s art-filled campus will open in June, but visitors to Expo Chicago can get a preview of its art commissions in two special curated sections of the fair

Plan for Centre Pompidou in New Jersey is ‘dead’, local official says

The new mayor of Jersey City, James Solomon, said a long-planned outpost of the French museum is no longer happening