Museum expansions
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
Expansion plans for Rome's Galleria Borghese draw fierce response
Italian heritage preservation organisations object to new construction for the museum which is located within a historically sensitive area
London’s National Gallery announces architects for new £350m wing
The Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma and Associates, whose previous museum projects include V&A Dundee, will design the building located on the site of St Vincent House
The new New Museum: now with twice the space
The New York institution opens its $82m expansion with a huge exhibition of works by more than 200 artists, from Salvador Dalí to Precious Okoyomon
Plans for €128m Guggenheim Bilbao expansion scrapped following protests
The proposed museum outpost at a nearby nature reserve has been mired in controversy since it was first mooted in 2008
Portland Art Museum to unveil $116m transformation with Mark Rothko at its heart
After more than a decade of planning, the US state’s largest ever capital investment in the arts opens with a new pavilion named for Rothko and a gallery devoted to Black artists
Philadelphia museum opens $20m expansion after winning back cancelled funding from Trump administration
Woodmere Art Museum, which includes thousands of works by generations of local artists, opens a second building to show off more of its collection
London’s National Gallery receives record-breaking donations for new wing—and will start collecting contemporary art
An unprecedented £375m has already been raised for the extension, which will have space for hundreds of paintings—while Tate is collaborating with the gallery on a revised acquisition strategy
Crystal Bridges Museum's expansion will open in June 2026
The Arkansas institution also announced that it has received two gifts totalling more than 200 works by over 100 artists
São Paulo's Museu de Arte to unveil sprawling expansion featuring 14-storey tower
This month’s opening will more than double the museum's space, and help to overcome its infrastructure limitations
Bigger is not better and free admission costs institutions less, museum report finds
Remuseum’s second report concludes that admission fees are raising few funds and keeping out potential visitors—and expansions are often not worth the money
Museu de Arte de São Paulo to finally open $43m expansion project in March 2025
A new building adjacent to the Brazilian museum’s original home will more than double its total space
New-York Historical Society changes its name and reveals plans for new $175m wing
The museum's new wing dedicated to American democracy will open in 2026, just in time for the US’s semiquincentennial
Rising construction costs are leading to smaller, more adaptive museum spaces
According to AEA Consulting’s Cultural Infrastructure Index, arts institutions have been resizing to meet audience needs
$25m gift puts focus on photography at the Art Institute of Chicago
The museum, whose photography collection began with a donation from Alfred Stieglitz, will soon give the medium pride of place again
The big museum openings and expansions of 2024
The Grand Egyptian Museum should open at last, while Masp in São Paulo gets a tower-block extension
Egyptian Museum in Turin to undergo €23m renovation with two-storey ‘agora’ at its heart
The mission of the project, designed by OMA architects, is to make the museum more accessible to the public
Victoria and Albert Museum's ambitious east London storehouse is finally complete
The Art Newspaper goes on an exclusive tour around the building which will open to the public in 2025
An invisible €171m renovation: Dutch royal palace reopens after five-year-long underground project
Designed as a royal hunting lodge in 1686, Het Loo has been transformed with a vast new entrance hall and multiple exhibition spaces hidden beneath the courtyard
Inside Malba: a tour of the largest museum dedicated to Latin American art in the world
On the edges of Buenos Aires, the Museum of Latin American Art has launched a second exhibition space. John Kampfner pays a visit.
First Saudi, now Seoul: Centre Pompidou confirms latest move of global expansion
Paris-headquartered museum brand will open its South Korean outpost in 2025
The oldest art institution in São Paulo adds a $16m wing for contemporary art
Pinacoteca de São Paulo's new building opens with a show by Haegue Yang
Panama Canal Museum to undergo major anniversary expansion—and bring to light troubling national histories
To celebrate 25 years, the institution will add new spaces and programmes, while also rethinking how it can strengthen the local art scene
The big museum openings to look out for in 2023
From the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery in London to the major expansion of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in the US, here is our pick of new museum projects in the coming year
New exhibition space! National Portrait Gallery buys former Victorian public lavatory
Museum in London acquired refurbished ticket kiosk site for £3m with funds from businessman Len Blavatnik
Monumental Sanford Biggers sculpture will welcome visitors to Orange County Museum of Art's new home
The sculpture will be installed prominently outdoors at the Southern California museum's new $93m Morphosis-designed building
Art Gallery of Ontario goes big with plans for new Modern and contemporary wing
The 50,000 sq. ft showplace, dubbed AGO Global Contemporary, is set to launch in 2026-27
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to expand its Islamic art galleries
The museum’s Islamic art collection spans more than 1,400 pieces as well as important long-term loans
Bronx Museum of the Arts to undertake $21m expansion
The project includes the addition of a multi-storey entrance and lobby, and is being supported with state and city funds
Garage Museum expands in Gorky park with move into historic Hexagon pavilion
Sanaa architects masterplan turns 1920s site in Moscow into vast exhibition space and library





























