Openings
The curtain rises: London's Museum of Shakespeare opens in 2024 on the site of a long-hidden theatre
The new venue, in Shoreditch, will reveal the archaeological remains of the Curtain Playhouse for the first time
Los Angeles museums are conducting the US’s biggest free admission experiment
Multiple free-admission policies have been introduced in the Los Angeles area—and early results are looking promising
Goodbye pink marble, farewell 1980s office vibe: inside the Hammer Museum’s 24-year transformation
A radical renovation and expansion overseen by director Ann Philbin and architect Michael Maltzan is just weeks from completion
Bangalore's new Museum of Art & Photography looks to attract India's digital generation
While the pandemic held up MAP's construction it made 100 exhibits available online—a strategy that will continue beyond its physical opening
Charleston reckons with its role in the international slave trade through its museums
The historic Charleston Museum and the forthcoming International African American Museum will explore the city's painful past
Van Gogh in 2023: a bumper year of exhibitions, openings, books and an Amsterdam birthday party
The Van Gogh Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary—and everyone is invited
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
East London art space Raven Row makes a comeback
Launched in 2009, the gallery took a five-year hiatus in 2017, but will return early next year with a TV archive show
'This land has an important history': Pritzker Prize-winning architects SANAA on their design for the Art Gallery of New South Wales
The designers behind the New Museum in New York and the Louvre-Lens talk about their latest project in Sydney
Sneak peek: see inside Australia's newest museum expansion, neighbouring Sydney's famous opera house
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has been expanded with a new building by Japanese architects SANAA, while new displays will push Australia's Indigenous artists to the fore
A vast forest of concrete columns: the Art Gallery of New South Wales opens new gallery in a disused oil tank
A once-hidden relic of the Second World War by Sydney's harbour has been turned into an underground exhibition space
This is Australia: Six must-see artworks in the Art Gallery of New South Wales's collection
The Sydney-based museum has almost 36,000 pieces from across time and from around the world
Long-awaited Istanbul Modern museum nears completion
Renzo Piano-designed institution may coincide with this year's Istanbul Biennial
Aboriginal art to take centre stage at $225m expansion of Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Sydney Modern Project—due to open in December—is the Australian city’s largest cultural development since the creation of its opera house
Once the US’s largest slave port, Charleston will open African American museum next year
Opening on 21 January 2023, the new International African American Museum will include ways for Black Americans to research their ancestry
Qatar ramps up cultural programme ahead of Fifa World Cup with museum previews and extensive exhibition programme
French curators take the reins at the country's new museums
New venues open in Hong Kong and Taiwan amid tense relations with China
The directors of the Hong Kong Palace Museum and Taipei Performing Arts Center both state that they are free of censorship
A new home for Munch's Scream: take a look inside Norway's half-a-billion pound mega museum
Oslo's National Museum merges four of Norway’s major art and design institutions under one giant roof, creating the largest museum in the Nordic countries
C’est officiel: Hauser & Wirth will open a space in Paris next year
Located in a townhouse near the Champs-Élysées, this will be the mega gallery’s 16th location worldwide
Medieval Welsh castle in world's first 'book town' saved from collapse
Hay Castle will open to the public for the first time following a £7m restoration project
Not one but two LGBTQ cultural spaces to open in London this spring
Queer Britain museum and Queercircle art space, both opening as the UK marks 50 years of Gay Pride marches, will offer free-entry exhibitions and public workshops
Los Angeles alternative space LAXART lays down roots with $5m new building
After moving into its first permanent home later this year, nonprofit is prepping an ambitious show of decommissioned Confederate monuments
Light and much more Space: first look at the expanded Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
La Jolla museum is set to reopen after a $105m renovation and collection revamp, telling the story of contemporary art from a distinctively West Coast perspective
Versailles restores Royal Tennis Court—where French democracy was founded—to its former glory
Modern-day politicians in France's National Assembly helped to crowdfund the €1.8m restoration at the Château de Versailles
William Morris's 'heaven on earth' home in the Cotswolds reopens after restoration
New research has helped to bring back lost objects and features at Kelmscott Manor, where the English Arts and Crafts designer lived for 25 years
Glasgow's Burrell Collection reopens after £68m revamp of parkland home
Six-year modernisation creates more space for one of Scotland's finest art collections, amassed by shipping magnate William Burrell
Venetian renaissance: palazzo and studio of Mariano Fortuny reopens as house-museum after flood damage
The Museo Fortuny has now been restored as a permanent venue celebrating the polymath designer's life and work
Iraq Museum in Baghdad reopens after three-year hiatus
Treasure trove of ancient Mesopotamian heritage—ransacked after 2003 Iraq invasion—was closed during anti-government protests in 2019
New €35m Kunsthalle Praha gallery backed by private collectors opens in the Czech capital
Former electric substation converted into contemporary art hub by Pudil Family Foundation
'We are under the water, but we can dream': Inside Madagascar's first contemporary art centre
Ambitious new gallery Hakanto Contemporary sets out to boost art scene of island nation—but with many of its residents experiencing the effects of devastating floods, is culture really top of their list?