Museum Design
Architecture and exhibition design for museums, galleries, and interpretive centres, from building form to the spatial staging of collections.
Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Build a Shtetl from Memory in the Lithuanian Countryside
A cluster of 40,000 aluminum-shingled roofs in Šeduva reimagines a Jewish village erased overnight in 1941.
Katsuhiko Endo Floats a Black Museum Above Osaka's Nakanoshima Island Like a City Within a City
A five-story art museum in Osaka's riverside district replaces a singular entrance with an open passage that invites the city inside.
Highland Village Interpretive Centre by Abbott Brown Architects: A Cultural Museum Rooted in Gaelic Heritage
Immersive museum design blending Gaelic heritage, vernacular forms, and sustainable Passive House strategies through sequential volumes, ramps, and material transitions.
Rocky Hill Memorial Museum by Crone Architects: Contemporary Design Honoring Heritage and Landscape in Goulburn, Austral
Contemporary museum in Goulburn honors Memorial Tower heritage, featuring reflective cladding, flexible exhibition spaces, and sensitive cultural landscape integration.
Yokosuka Museum of Art by Riken Yamamoto: A Landscape-Integrated Cultural Landmark in Yokosuka, Japan
Riken Yamamoto’s Yokosuka Museum of Art integrates coastal landscape, buried architecture, double-skin façade, and public spaces to connect art, nature, and visitors.
Dotsss Children’s Museum by DL atelier: A Futuristic Educational Space Inspired by Icebergs in Chengdu
Iceberg-inspired children’s museum in Chengdu featuring cubic volumes, flexible exhibition spaces, playful courtyards, and translucent membrane facade encouraging exploration and curiosity.
Ginkgo Gallery by MORE Architecture: A Harmonious Blend of Art, Nature, and Culture in Jiaxing, China
Ginkgo Gallery by MORE Architecture in Jiaxing blends fluid museum spaces, nature, and art using in-situ concrete and village-inspired design.
National Museum of Women's History and Concert Hall: A Delhi Landmark That Treats Women as Agents of History
Ajay Surya turns a Pragati Maidan parking lot into a chronological museum journey, a central memorial and a vineyard-style hall for 1,600.
Urban Storage: A Hybrid Museum That Turns Its Archive into the Main Public Space
A museum where the archive becomes the architecture: high-density storage, a Welcome Street and a non-linear Random Path open the collection.
Museum of Natural History: A Stepped Landform That Bows to Delhi's Heritage Sightlines
Manisha Nimesh's thesis turns a museum into an extruded landform, where a continuous ramp threads galleries, courtyards and heritage views into one walk.
Museum of Human: A Phenomenological Museum Where the Architecture Itself Becomes the Exhibit
Umar Farooq's conceptual museum trades artifacts for light, void and a central axis, turning circular chambers into stages of human existence.
African Museum of Art and History: Biomimicry as Cultural Architecture in Yaoundé
A shortlisted thesis proposes a porous, wood-driven museum that fuses biomimetic form with African craft, memory, and positive-energy performance.
