Dezeen's top 10 museums and galleries of 2019
Continuing our review of the year, Semi Han picks out the top 10 museums and galleries that welcomed their first visitors in 2019. More
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Vector Architects creates public space with Changjiang Art Museum
The pale brick volume of the Changjiang Art Museum by Vector Architects includes a raised public square and footbridge for the city of Taiyuan. More
Frank Gehry restores entrance and vaulted corridor at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Frank Gehry has completed work on the first stage in the major renovation of Philadelphia's Museum of Art, over a decade after he was first enlisted to design the project. More
David Chipperfield completes iridescent West Bund Museum containing Centre Pompidou outpost
A public esplanade envelops David Chipperfield's West Bund Museum in Shanghai, which contains the Centre Pompidou's first Chinese outpost. More
Gus Casely-Hayford appointed as first director of V&A East
British historian, curator and broadcaster Gus Casely-Hayford has been appointed the inaugural director of V&A East, the South Kensington museum's east London outpost. More
Props exhibit fills stairwells and bathrooms of Zaha Hadid's Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati
Artist and architect Lauren Henkin has created a series of sculptures to fill "unintended" installation spaces in the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio designed by late architect Zaha Hadid. More
Dorte Mandrup's Arctic whale watching facility will "grow out of the landscape"
Dorte Mandrup has released visuals of The Whale, a viewpoint for whale watching that will resemble a giant rock outcrop within the Arctic Circle on the northern coast of Norway. More
Coldefy & Associés and RDAI win competition to build museum for Orlando Pulse shooting
French firms Coldefy & Associés and RDAI have beaten competition from Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Studio Libeskind to build a museum and memorial dedicated to the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. More
White steel and mirrored halls form sci-fi themed architectural model museum in China
Wutopia Lab has used over 5,000 white steel pipes to form the structure of The Last Redoubt, China's first museum for architectural models. More
MoMA reopens following major renovation by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Architecture firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler have completed the renovation and expansion of New York's Museum of Modern Art, featuring a new lobby, bookstore, cafe and several gallery spaces. More
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Studio Libeskind and MVRDV compete to build museum for Orlando Pulse shooting
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Studio Libeskind and MVRDV are among six teams that have revealed their competing proposals for a museum and memorial dedicated to the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. More
Flowering meadow tops Statue of Liberty Museum in New York by FXCollaborative
An expansive green roof, bird-friendly glass and copper accents are among the design elements that architecture firm FXCollaborative incorporated into an angular museum on Liberty Island in the New York Harbor. More
BIG bridges river in Norway with twisting art gallery
BIG has completed The Twist art gallery that twirls "like a deck of cards" and bridges the river dividing Kistefos sculpture park in Norway. More
Bauhaus Museum Dessau opens its doors
A museum dedicated to the Bauhaus, designed by Barcelona studio Addenda Architects, has opened in the German town of Dessau, the former home of the hugely influential design school. More
Kengo Kuma's stacked-timber Odunpazari Modern Museum opens in Turkey
The Odunpazari Modern Museum, designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates, has opened its doors in Eskisehir, northwest Turkey. More
Closure of Canada's only design museum shows "lack of support for design" says V&A curator
The closure of Design Exchange's permanent collection demonstrates an absence of support for the design industry in the country, says Canadian writer and V&A senior curator Brendan Cormier. More
Iris van Herpen brings couture fashion to the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden
Neutelings Riedijk Architects and Iris van Herpen have wrapped the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in over 1000 metres of delicate concrete friezes that merge fossil forms with the fabric of the designer's collections. More
Coalition of survivors protest museum for Orlando Pulse shooting
A group of survivors from the deadly 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida are protesting the creation of a museum and memorial for the tragedy – which firms including Studio Libeskind and Diller Scofidio + Renfro are vying to build. More
Forensic Architecture "delighted" as Whitney vice chair resigns over tear-gas protests
Research design studio Forensic Architecture has expressed delight at the resignation of New York's Whitney Museum vice chairman Warren Kanders, following months of protests regarding his ties to tear gas used against migrants at the US-Mexico border. More
Foster + Partners to add giant "floating pavilion" to top of Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Foster + Partners has revealed its plans to add a large overhanging rooftop extension to the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, as part of its renovation of the institution in northern Spain. More