Openings
'The museum is not a space for the elite': Portuguese building firm’s new museum puts workers first
Located in a former Braga courthouse, Muzeu—Thought and Contemporary Art DST, houses one of Portugal's biggest private art collections
From the World Cup and the Olympics to two new museums: upcoming cultural attractions in Los Angeles
As well as the renovated and expanded Los Angeles County Museum of Art, here are some of the art and culture projects to look forward to
Restored Victorian greenhouse links Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery to its living neighbours
Opening this weekend, the Green-House incorporates a historic 1895 cast-iron and glass structure and serves as the “new front door” to the famed burial ground
Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries reframe 6,000 years of history
A vast concrete beauty that has been 20 years in the making is opening on 19 April, aiming to serve the local community and provide a welcoming focal point for the Los Angeles area
‘A fresh look at contemporary culture’: Gus Casely-Hayford, director of V&A East, takes us inside the new London museum
The Stratford-based museum, opening this month, aims to build on the success of V&A East Storehouse, which has attracted 500,000 visitors since it opened in May last year
London galleries Edel Assanti and Emalin both announce expansions
While Edel Assanti's second space will join a cluster forming in St. James's, Emalin will take over the Helmet Row location formerly occupied by Modern Art
Barn at Henry Moore’s former home redeveloped into exhibition space
Following a £5m refit, the Sheep Field Barn gallery at the sculptor’s farmhouse in Hertfordshire, England, will also house an education centre
New £5m cultural centre in Northampton, UK to pursue model that ‘embeds artists in social and economic fabric of a place’
The Arts Collective complex, five years in the making, will feature galleries, learning spaces and 17 artists’ studios
‘It doesn’t put walls around everything’: behind the plans for Manila’s new contemporary art centre
The Kontempo Center for Contemporary Art will be led by Reuben Keehan, the longtime curator of contemporary Asian art at the Queensland Art Gallery
Syria’s Hasakah Museum—occupied by military for more than a decade—to finally open
The archaeological museum in northeast Syria—which was out of sight of many local residents until late 2024—is opening 24 years after construction on it began
‘An institution where you delve into works’: details of AlUla Contemporary Art Museum announced
The vision and name for the new institution, opening in the AlUla culture and heritage site in northwest Saudi Arabia, were revealed on 1 February
Inside Brussels's €230m Kanal-Centre Pompidou museum—opening in November
Housed in a huge former Citroën garage, the space will be home to modern and contemporary art, including loans from the French museum
New experimental art organisation opens in New York
The gallery, Times, will focus on the present—with a planned obsolescence after three years
The most exciting museum openings in 2026
From the idyllic Slovenian countryside to the heart of Los Angeles, here are ten of the biggest new and expanded museums opening this year
Reopening of Libya's national museum celebrated as ‘new beginning’
Archaeologists hope that the space, closed for more than ten years, will create positive change for the country’s heritage
‘An entertainment pavilion on bones’: new Russian museum opens in occupied Mariupol
Officially known as Pole Bitvy (Battlefield), Russian state media has described the space as an “interactive art facility”
Two more mega museums open in Abu Dhabi
The Zayed National Museum, designed by Norman Foster, and the Natural History Museum, are both located on the emirate’s Saadiyat Island
Palazzo of Pop Art: new gallery in Italy will house major collection of 20th-century art
Sonnabend Collection in Mantua—home to the collection of the late dealer Ileana Sonnabend—includes works by Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol as well as contemporary artists
Collector of Beeple’s $69.3 million NFT work launches space in Singapore
Vignesh Sundaresan, who purchased Everydays: The First 5000 Days in 2021, has unveiled Padimai Art & Tech Studio—which opens with an exhibition made in collaboration with Olafur Eliasson
Pursuing ‘a different economy’, London gallery Herald St will open new space in Bologna
At a time when mid-sized galleries are suffering from hasty expansions, Herald St Bologna reflects a more sustainable attempt at growth
Opening date for London’s V&A East Museum announced
The institution will join venues for the BBC, Sadler’s Wells East and London College of Fashion in the new East Bank cultural quarter
Tutankhamun set to debut at delayed Grand Egyptian Museum opening
The colossal archaeological museum is set to welcome international dignitaries to a ceremony this Saturday, including opening its prize attraction, the Tutankhamun Gallery
Extravagant Munich museum dedicated to Symbolist Franz von Stuck to reopen after €13.5m renovation
The Museum Villa Stuck’s opulent interiors have had new life breathed into them—and the influential artist’s collection has been rehung
Almine Rech reopens in London with downsized gallery
The new venue is around a quarter of the size of Rech’s former London gallery, which closed in August
New London venue to focus on global majority arts—and host ‘necessary conversations’
Ibraaz, funded by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation and opening on 15 October, is a multi-disciplinary art space in Fitzrovia that seeks to address “urgent questions”
Gaudí’s Casa Batlló to launch contemporary art gallery in previously unseen space
The newly designed gallery will build on the artist's legacy through commissions and new technology
New Frida Kahlo museum, focused on the artist's youth and family life, opens in Mexico City
Museo Casa Kahlo is located a short walk from the popular Casa Azul museum in the Coyoacán neighbourhood, in a home long owned by members of the Kahlo family
Calder Gardens opens this weekend in Philadelphia
The long-awaited project is not a museum but a contemplative, multi-sensory space—or an underground cathedral
Uptown and downtown, re-imagined museums in New York prepare to reopen
This autumn, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the New Museum will reopen with ambitious new facilities that reflect renewed commitments to artists and the evolving civic role of contemporary art
Alexander Calder finally gets hometown space in Philadelphia
The $70m Calder Gardens is a unique space serving as both a celebration of the artist’s work and a meticulously landscaped oasis on the city’s grandest boulevard





























