Contemporary Museum Buildings: Architecture
Major property developments from around the world. Contemporary buildings institution Built Environment designs.
post updated 19 October 2026
We choose 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.
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Contemporary Museum Building Designs
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Contemporary Museum Buildings Designs
Building Designs – no images, alphabetical:
Museum Architectural Designs – No Images
Building Designs, alphabetical:
21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, japan
Date built: 2007
Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
Abteiburg Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Date built: 1982
Hans Hollein Architects
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
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Hans Hollein Architects
Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Date built: 1995
Søren Robert Lund Architect
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Extension to Harvard University Fogg Museum, Massachusetts, USA
Date built: 1984
JSMWA with Perry Dean Rogers and Partners
The Atheneum, at New Harmony, Indiana, USA
Date built: 1979
Richard Meier Architects
Aust Agder museum, Arendal, Norway
Dates built: 2007-10
David Chipperfield Architects with div.A arkitekter as
Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil
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Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Canada
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Antoine Predock
Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Canada
Date built: 2006
Moriyama and Teshima / Griffiths Rankin Cook
Chinese National Museum, Beijing, China
Date built: 2004
Gerkan, Marg & Partners (gmp)
Danish Maritime Museum, Denmark
BIG Group – Bjarkes Ingels Group
image from architect
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California, USA
2005
Herzog & de Meuron Architects
Denver Art Museum – Extension, Denver, USA
2006
Studio Libeskind
Felix Nussbaum Museum, Osnabrück, Germany
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Daniel Libeskind Architect
Fuefukigawa Museum of Fruit, Yamanashi, Japan
1994
Itsuko Hasegawa
Fukui City Museum of Art, Fukui, Japan
1996
Kisho Kurokawa
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Katsuyama, Japan
2000
Kisho Kurokawa
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Gotoh Museum, Tokyo, Japan
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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 building proposal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Jean Nouvel
Hamar Bispegaard Museum, Norway
1973
Sverre Fehn
Hans Arp Museum, Bahnhof Rolandsdeck, Germany
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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
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Wilford Schupp
Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
1978
William Whitfield
Hunterian Museum
Jewish Museum – new glass courtyard extension, Berlin, Germany
2007
Daniel Libeskind
Kanno Museum of Art, Shiogama, nr Sendai, Japan
2005
Atelier Hitoshi Abe
Karmøy Fishing Museum, Norway
1998
Snøhetta Architects
Lillehammer Museum Extension, Norway
1959
Sverre Fehn & Geir Grung; Maihaugen
Louvain-La-Neuve Museum, Belgium
1992
Kisho Kurokawa
Maserati Museum, Italy
2007-09
Future Systems Architects
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
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Gluckman Mayner
Mosegärd Museum, Århus, Denmark
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Keith Williams Architects
Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France
2007
Coop Himmelb(l)au
Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
2006
Jean Nouvel Architect
photo © Isabelle Lomholt
Museum Island Masterplan, Berlin, Germany
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David Chipperfield Architects
Museum of African Art, 5th Avenue, New York, USA
2007-09
Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Museum of the City of New York, USA
1932
Joseph H. Freedlander
Museum of the City of New York – Extension, USA
2008
Polshek Partnership
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Sauerbruch & Hutton Architects
Museum of Fine Arts, The Audrey Jones Beck Building, Houston, Texas, USA
2000
Rafael Moneo Architects
Museum of Folk Art, New York, USA
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Tod Williams + Billie Tsien
Museum of Hiroshige Ando, Batou, Japan
2000
Kengo Kuma & Associates
image : Mitsumasa Fujitsuka
Museum of Memory, Granada, Andalucia, Spain
2005-
Alberto Campo Baeza
The Museum of Modern Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2007-
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)
Museum of Modern Art & Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden
1998
Rafael Moneo Architects
1990 Architecture competition
Museum of Occupation, Riga, Latvia
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Gunnar Birkerts
image : M Karklins received from RIAS
Museum of the Republic + National Library, Brasilia, Brazil
2006
Oscar Niemeyer
Museum Rietberg Extension, Switzerland
2007
Grazioli Krischanitz
Museum of Roman Art, Mérida, Spain
1985
Rafael Moneo Architects
Museum of Sciences, Valencia, Spain
1996
Rafael Moneo Architects
Museum of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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Denton Corker Marshall Architects
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
1987
Kisho Kurokawa
National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia
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Ashton Raggatt McDougall Architects
National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
1912
Saarinen, Gesellius, & Lindgren
National Palace Museum, Taiwan
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Antoine Predock Architect
National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, Wales
2006
Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Nestlé Chocolate Museum, Toluca, Mexico City
2007
Rojkind Arquitectos
Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, St. Pölten, Austria
2002
Hans Hollein Architects
Norwegian Glacier Museum, Norway
1991
Sverre Fehn
Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
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Gehry Partners
Oporto Museum of Modern Art, Oporto, Portugal
1999
Alvaro Siza Architects
Prado Museum Extension, Madrid, Spain
2001
Rafael Moneo Architects
The Queens Museum expansion, New York, USA
2007-10
Grimshaw with Ammann & Whitney
Red Location Museum of the People’s Struggle, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
2006
Noero Wolff Architects
Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo, Izumoshi, Shimne, Japan
Date built: 2006
Design: Maki And Associates
Suzhou Museum, China
Date built: 2007
Design: I.M. Pei, Architect
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Extension, Israel
Dates built: 2007-09
Design: Preston Scott Cohen Architects
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain
Date built: 1992
Design: Rafael Moneo Architects
Whitney Museum of American Art building, New York, USA
Date built: 2008-
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)
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