While the pandemic held up MAP's construction it made 100 exhibits available online—a strategy that will continue beyond its physical opening

The historic Charleston Museum and the forthcoming International African American Museum will explore the city's painful past

The Van Gogh Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary—and everyone is invited

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

Launched in 2009, the gallery took a five-year hiatus in 2017, but will return early next year with a TV archive show

The designers behind the New Museum in New York and the Louvre-Lens talk about their latest project in Sydney

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 once-hidden relic of the Second World War by Sydney's harbour has been turned into an underground exhibition space

The Sydney-based museum has almost 36,000 pieces from across time and from around the world

Renzo Piano-designed institution may coincide with this year's Istanbul Biennial

The Sydney Modern Project—due to open in December—is the Australian city’s largest cultural development since the creation of its opera house

Opening on 21 January 2023, the new International African American Museum will include ways for Black Americans to research their ancestry

French curators take the reins at the country's new museums

The directors of the Hong Kong Palace Museum and Taipei Performing Arts Center both state that they are free of censorship

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

Located in a townhouse near the Champs-Élysées, this will be the mega gallery’s 16th location worldwide

Hay Castle will open to the public for the first time following a £7m restoration project

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

After moving into its first permanent home later this year, nonprofit is prepping an ambitious show of decommissioned Confederate monuments

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

Modern-day politicians in France's National Assembly helped to crowdfund the €1.8m restoration at the Château de Versailles

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

Six-year modernisation creates more space for one of Scotland's finest art collections, amassed by shipping magnate William Burrell

The Museo Fortuny has now been restored as a permanent venue celebrating the polymath designer's life and work

Treasure trove of ancient Mesopotamian heritage—ransacked after 2003 Iraq invasion—was closed during anti-government protests in 2019

Former electric substation converted into contemporary art hub by Pudil Family Foundation

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?

The privately funded museum is to be led by Ralph Jentsch, the managing director of the Grosz estate

The Longlati Foundation in Shanghai and the Macalline Art Center and Fen Sonic HQ in Beijing put curation at the forefront

While the pandemic may have forced museums around the world into an involuntary temporary slumber, builders have been busy. Here are the most exciting new and expanded museums opening in 2022