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Museum Building Designs : Architecture
Major Architecture Projects from around the world.
post updated 24 January 2026
We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Museum Building Designs. We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across the world. The focus is on contemporary buildings.
We have 6 pages of Museum Buildings selections.
New Museum Building Designs
Museum Buildings : news + key projects
Museum Architecture : A-F
Contemporary Museum Buildings : G-L
Museum Building Designs : M (this page)
Museum Designs : N-R
Museum Architecture Designs : S-Z
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Museum Architecture Designs
Architecture News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
Maritime Museum, Lingang, China
photo : HG Esch
Maritime Museum Lingang
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Major Museum Architecture Designs, alphabetical:
Melbourne Museum, Victoria, Australia
Design: Denton Corker Marshall
photo : John Gollings
Melbourne Museum
Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg state, southwestern Germany
Design: UN Studio Architects
photo : Christian Richters
Mercedes Museum Stuttgart
Moesgård Museum, Århus, Jutland, western Denmark
Design: Henning Larsen Architects
image from architects
Moesgård Museum
The munch museum, Oslo, southern Norway
Design: HerrerosArquitectos
model : Jorge Queipo, photo : Federico López
Munch Museum : Architecture Contest win
Murcia Museum, Murcia, southern Spain
Design: S&Aa
image : Estudio Malla
Murcia Museum
Museo del Acero, Monterrey, Mexico
Design: Grimshaw Architects
image from architect
Museo Soumaya, Mexico
Design: FREE | Fernando Romero EnterprisE
image from architect
Museo Soumaya
Museum ABC, Madrid, Spain
Design: Aranguren & Gallegos Arquitectos
photo : Jesus Granada
Madrid Museum
Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Hesse, western Germany
Architect: Richard Meier
photo © Adrian Welch
Frankfurt Museum Building
Museum Liaunig, Carinthia, Austria
Design: querkraft
photograph : Lisa Raste
Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus/Suha
Museum of Bond Vehicles and Espionage, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Design: Gensler architects
image from architect
Bond Museum Building
Museum of Conflict Tripoli, Libya, north Africa
Design: Metropolitan Workshop
image from architect
Museum of Conflict Tripoli
Museum of Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, southwestern China
Coop Himmelb(l)au
picture : SILKROAD Digital Technology Co. LTD
Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art Planning
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
I M Pei
photo Courtesy of the Museum of Islamic Art
Museum of Islamic Art Building
Museum of Liverpool, northwest England, UK
3XN
image from architect
Museum of Liverpool Building
Museum of Middle East Modern Art, UAE
UNStudio
image from architect
MOMEMA Building
Museum of Modern Art – MoMA, New York City, NY, USA
Yoshio Taniguchi with KPF Architecture
photo : Andrew McRae
MoMA New York + MoMA Extension
Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Design: Benson + Forsyth Architects
photograph © Adrian Welch
Museum of Scotland Extension
Museum of Troy, Çanakkale, Turkey
Design: RTA-Office with DOME Partners
image from architects
Museum of Troy
Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, southwestern Sweden
Brisac Gonzalez Architects
building photo © Hélène Binet
Swedish Museum building
Musée du Louvre, Paris, northern France
Design: various architects
photo © Adrian Welch
Louvre Paris + Louvre Pyramid Building
More modern Museum Building Designs online soon.
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Museum Architecture – No Images
Contemporary Building Designs, alphabetical:
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
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More new Museum Building Designs online soon.
Guggenheim Museum New York, NY, USA
Porsche Museum Stuttgart building, Germany
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Architecture Design
Contemporary Building Designs – recent architectural selection from e-architect below:
Comments / photos for the Museum Building Designs page welcome.