View With A Room: Here Are 10 Art Museums Around The World That Opened Or Expanded This Year

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View With A Room: Here Are 10 Art Museums Around The World That Opened Or Expanded This Year

Art does not exist in a vacuum; it needs to be shown and seen, not to mention preserved and preserved. In 2022, institutions, governments, patrons and donors from around the world have signed or announced major agreements to host and display art collections. Not only do new spaces open up, but a great expansion begins. This is one of the most important events to take place this year.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is pushing the $246 million expansion as the biggest art project since the Sydney Opera House.
Caroline Goldstein,

Image by Sydney Contemporary Project, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA. © 2021 Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Image by Sydney Contemporary Project, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA. © 2021 Art Gallery of New South Wales.

At the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, the Modern Sydney project is undergoing an A$344 million (AU$246 million) expansion of a site overlooking the city's famous harbor. The project, billed as the "most significant" cultural event since the Sydney Opera House opened in 1973, includes a new building designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architecture firm SANAA. The museum's approximately 250,000 square feet will double with an expansion to 430,556 square feet [when the project] is completed and it will open to the public on December 3rd."

The recently opened Museo delle Civiltà in Rome decolonizes its collection. This is a rare success story.
Hilly Perlson November 8, 2022

Museum of Civilizations, Rome. type of instalation. Photo: Giorgio Benny courtesy of the Museo delle Civiltà.

“After six years of renovation and, above all, a deep restructuring, the Museo delle Civiltà Italiane reopened its doors to the public on 26 October. In recent years, many of the world's encyclopedic museums have looked with dismay at the ideology and modes of presentation of their ethnological collections, not to mention their often heterogeneous origins. Rome, slow to confront its colonial past in public discourse, will decolonize the Rijksmuseum collection with the clarity of an extraordinary vision, under the guidance of Italian curator Andrea Viliani.”

After an 11-year restoration, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Antwerp are reopening in a modern style.
Joe Lawson-Tankred,

Facade of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Photo: © Karin Borgouts.

“The newly renovated Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Antwerp will open their doors to the public this Saturday for the first time in over a decade. Built in the last decades of the 19th century, the Museum's sumptuous neoclassical exterior features a new contemporary white cubic interior. In total, the renovation cost the Flemish government €100 million ($98 million), which Flanders Minister-President Jan Jambon said was stolen to obtain an additional 69,000 square feet.

Seeking to make itself known on the cultural map, the Swiss city of Lausanne has just opened a new arts center the size of five football fields.
Ann Samson,

New headquarters for MUDAC and Photo Elysée. © Matey Gafsov

“In the Swiss city of Lausanne, a large new arts center called Plateforme 10 has opened, aiming to revitalize the area through culture. Platform 10, conceived as a new "art district", covers an area of ​​25,000 square meters, equivalent to five football fields… Lausanne's art scene has long overshadowed Geneva, Zurich and Basel. The level of investment in the new project shows the city's readiness to compete."

After initial controversy and a delay due to a typhoon, the $450 million Hong Kong Palace Museum is reopening to local enthusiasts.
Vivien Chow,

Hong Kong Palace Museum officially reopens to the public

Visitors view an exhibition at the Hong Kong Palace Museum on July 3, 2022 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Li Zhihua/China News Service via Getty Images)

“Although it bears the same name as the historic Forbidden City, Hong Kong's $450 million museum is far from just a companion to Beijing's palace museum, which houses the Chinese imperial collection. for the first time, it is exhibited together with valuable old works of art brought from outside Beijing, which gives the new space a special identity.

Museum of Rescued Art opens in Italy, dedicated to the cultural heritage of a country conquered from abroad
Emma Rose Abrams,

Apulian-made plate with two red-figure handles depicting Eros emerging from a flower. By mid 4 am Photo courtesy of the National Museum of Rome.

“In a triumphant move in its efforts to restore its cultural heritage, Italy has opened a museum to house the art it has salvaged. A museum opening this week in Rome will display looted and stolen items returned to the country. Museo dell'Arte Salvata, located in the National Roman Museum of the Baths of Diocletian, opened with an exhibition of 100 exhibits.

Prague opens the doors of its new $40 million Kunsthalle with the support of a pair of prominent Czech collectors.
According to ArtnetNews,

Exterior view of the Kunsthalle in Prague. Photo by Lukasz Masner.

Exterior view of the Kunsthalle in Prague. Photo by Lukasz Masner.

Kunsthalle Praha, a new non-profit contemporary art museum, opened today in a former electrical building in the center of Prague. The space plans to focus on Czech and Central European art of the 20th and 21st centuries, although its first exhibition is clearly global. The contemporary art group exhibition focuses on the history of the museum building, a former transformer station, [and] includes works by Laszlo Maholi-Nadz, Angela Bulloch, teamLab and Olafur Eliasson.

The German government has just bought the Hamburger Bahnhof museum from a real estate company for 170 million euros.
Joe Lawson-Tankred,

The Museum of Modernity is located at the Hamburg train station in Berlin.
Photo by David von Becker.

“The federal government and the government of Berlin bought the Hamburg Railway Factory Museum and the adjacent Rickhallen district after lengthy negotiations with developers. art collections Next to Rickhallen is a former warehouse converted into an exhibition hall. The federal government paid 66 million euros ($68 million) for the train station in Hamburg, while the state of Berlin bought Rickhallen for around 100 million euros ($103 million).

Graffiti art gets a permanent home in Los Angeles with the opening of the Beyond the Streets Gallery.
Sara Cascone

Merchandise at the new Beyond the Streets gallery in Los Angeles. Photo by Yubo Dong/studio photo courtesy of Beyond the Streets.

Merchandise at the new Beyond the Streets gallery in Los Angeles. Photo by Yubo Dong/studio photo courtesy of Beyond the Streets.

Renowned graffiti historian and street art collector Roger Gastman is opening a permanent home in Los Angeles for his popular Beyond the Streets museum series, celebrating street artists past and present. The gallery will offer museum exhibitions with private collections.”

Here's what you can expect from Factory International, Manchester's highly anticipated $205 million arts hub.
Joe Lawson-Tankred,

Architectural visualization office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) Factory International in Manchester, UK. Image courtesy of OMA.

“Today it was announced that the highly anticipated £ 186 million ($205 million) Factory International cultural space will open in Manchester in June 2023… The 144,000 square foot space was designed by the Metropolitan Architecture Authority with an architect. Elena Van Lomo.

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