Contemporary Museum Buildings Pictures, Architects, Interiors Designs Projects
Contemporary Museum Buildings : Architecture
Major Developments from around the world: Built Environment
post updated 23 June 2023
Contemporary Museum Building Designs
We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Contemporary Museum Buildings. We cover completed museum buildings and new building designs across the world. The focus is on contemporary Museum buildings.
We have 6 pages of Museum Buildings selections.
Museum Buildings : news + key projects
Museum Architecture : A-F
Contemporary Museum Buildings : G-L (this page)
Museum Designs : N-R
Museum Architecture Designs : S-Z
New Museum Architecture
Contemporary Museum Architecture – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
© Nic Lehoux / Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston – 12 Jan 2012
The New Wing and restored Historic Galleries are designed by Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect Renzo Piano.
Hoki Museum, Chiba, Japan
Design: Nikken Sekkei
image : Harunori Noda
Hoki Museum Building
An amazing cantilever is one of the highlights of this luxurious Japanese building.
Lille Museum of Modern Art – Pavilion, France
Design: 2hD Architects
image from architect
Lille Museum of Modern Art Building
Recently extended, this building reopened its doors in 2010 with the help of this welcoming pavilion. The pavilion site lies next to the subtle original brick buildings of the museum, within its extensive sculpture gardens, and overlooks the surrounding country park.
Contemporary Museum Buildings
Major New Museum Architecture Projects, alphabetical:
German Film Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Design: ATELIER BRÜCKNER
photo : Uwe Dettmar, Frankfurt/Main
German Film Museum Building
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA
Design: Richard Meier & Partners
photo © Alice McRae
Getty Center Building
Glasgow Transport Museum, Scotland
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
photo © Alice McRae
Glasgow Transport Museum
GRAM – Art Museum, USA
Design: wHY architecture
photo : Chris Barrett@Hedrich Blessing
GRAM Michigan
Grand Museum of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
Design: Heneghan Peng Architects
picture : heneghan.peng.architects
Grand Museum of Egypt
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, England
Design: Pringle Richards Sharratt
photo from CABE
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
Hergé museum, Belgium
Design: Atelier Christian de Portzamparc
picture © Nicolas Borel
Herge Museum
Imperial War Museum North, England, UK
Daniel Libeskind Architects
photo © Adrian Welch
Imperial War Museum Manchester
Jeongok Prehistory Museum, Korea
X-TU
photo from architect
Jeongok Prehistory Museum
Jewish Museum building, Berlin, Germany
Daniel Libeskind Architect
photograph © Bitter Bredt
Jewish Museum Berlin
Kalmar Museum of Art, Sweden
Tham & Videgård Hansson Architects
building image from TVH Arkitekter
Kalmar Museum of Art
Kazerne Dossin Museum, Belgium
Claus en Kaan Architecten
picture from architect
Mechelen museum
Koninklijk Museum, Belgium
Claus en Kaan Architecten
image from architect
KMSKA, Antwerp
Lee Ufan Museum, Japan
Architect: Tadao Ando
photograph : Tadasu Yamamoto
Lee Ufan Museum
Liangzhu Culture Museum, China
David Chipperfield Architects
photo © Christian Richters
Liangzhu Culture Museum
Lille Metropole museum, France
Manuelle Gautrand
photo : Max Lerouge
Lille Metropole museum
Lille Museum of Modern Art, France
2hD Architects
image from architect
Lille Museum of Modern Art Pavilion
Literaturmuseum der Moderne, Germany
David Chipperfield Architects
photograph © Christian Richters
Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach
Lowry Centre, Salford, England, UK
JSMW&A Ltd; MW&PL then B+BAL
photo © Adrian Welch
Lowry Centre Building
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Contemporary Museum Buildings – No Images
Building Designs, alphabetical:
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
1997
Design: Richard Meier Architects
Gotoh Museum, Tokyo, Japan
–
David Chipperfield Architects
Grand-duc Jean Modern Art Museum, Luxembourg
2006
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
MUDAM, Luxembourg – aka Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1959
Frank Lloyd Wright Architect
Guggenheim New York
Guggenheim Museum proposal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
–
Jean Nouvel
Hamar Bispegaard Museum, Norway
1973
Sverre Fehn
Hans Arp Museum, Bahnhof Rolandsdeck, Germany
–
Richard Meier Architects
Heaven Pavilion, Tateyama Museum, Japan
1995
Enric Miralles
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
1983
Richard Meier Architects
High Museum of Art Expansion, Atlanta, USA
2006
Renzo Piano Architects
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1989
Kisho Kurokawa
History Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
–
Wilford Schupp
Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
1978
William Whitfield
Hunterian Museum
Jewish Museum – new glass courtyard extension, Berlin, Germany
2007
Daniel Libeskind
Jewish Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
–
Jewish Museum Copenhagen
Kanno Museum of Art, Shiogama, nr Sendai, Japan
2005
Atelier Hitoshi Abe
Karmøy Fishing Museum, Norway
1998
Snøhetta Architects
Köppersmöhle Museum : Grothe Collection, Duisburg, Germany
1999
Herzog de Meuron Architects
Köppersmöhle Museum
Lillehammer Museum Extension, Norway
1959
Sverre Fehn & Geir Grung; Maihaugen
Louvain-La-Neuve Museum, Belgium
1992
Kisho Kurokawa
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New Architectural Designs
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