Continuing our 2025 review, we take a look at 10 of the most eye-catching museums and galleries featured on Dezeen this year, including buildings by Foster + Partners, MAD, Kengo Kuma and BIG. More about The top 10 museums and galleries of 2025
Soaring ventilation towers modelled on the wings of a falcon signal the Zayed National Museum, completed by British studio Foster + Partners on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. More about Foster + Partners unveils long-awaited Zayed National Museum on Saadiyat Island
Pixelated white-concrete forms resembling rock formations define this sprawling museum by Dutch studio Mecanoo, located in the cultural district on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. More about Mecanoo completes rock-like Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi
Burkinabè architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has designed the UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, which will display 600 artefacts that have been stolen or disappeared. More about Diébédo Francis Kéré designs UNESCO museum for stolen artefacts
Berlin-based studio Kéré Architecture has unveiled plans for an art and photography museum in Germany, which will feature an 80-metre-long rammed-earth wall and a timber pergola. More about Timber museum to be Kéré Architecture's first cultural project in Germany
Carlotta Di Sandro and Cecilia Marcheschi of Atelier Vago have added pops of bright blue and yellow to the Pailunga creative space in a deconsecrated chapel near Pisa, Italy. More about Atelier Vago transforms Tuscan chapel into "house for art"
Architecture studios Renzo Piano Building Workshop and PTW Architects have broken ground on the Isola Della Musica opera house in Hanoi, which was designed to have a pearl-like appearance. More about Renzo Piano Building Workshop designs pearlescent opera house on Hanoi lake
British designer Asif Khan has converted a Soviet-era cinema in Kazakhstan into Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, updating its concrete structure and 18-metre-tall auditorium. More about Asif Khan transforms Soviet cinema into "cloud-like" cultural centre in Almaty
Japanese studio SANAA has reached completion on its largest cultural project to date, Taichung Green Museumbrary in Taiwan. More about SANAA completes Taichung Green Museumbrary in Taiwan
Construction has begun on the Tadao Ando-designed National Museum of Uzbekistan in Tashkent, which will be comprised of interconnected concrete squares, circles and triangles. More about Interlinked geometric shapes form Tadao Ando-designed National Museum of Uzbekistan
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has revealed the design for the Grand Fendika Cultural Center in Ethiopia that will "invite the energy of Addis Ababa in". More about Carlo Ratti unveils design for Grand Fendika Cultural Center in Addis Ababa
The industrial character of a former warehouse has been playfully subverted to create this multipurpose events space in Madrid, Spain, designed by local architecture practice Burr Studio. More about Burr Studio converts Madrid warehouse into skylit events space
Ukrainian architecture studio Forma has renovated Pavilion 13, a Soviet-era exhibition hall in Kyiv, carefully updating its modernist structure for contemporary use. More about Forma revives Soviet-era exhibition hall in Kyiv "without erasing its character"
Dutch studio MVRDV has overhauled a former industrial site in Shanghai to create the Gate M West Bund Dream Center, a riverside cultural district punctuated with bright orange circulation routes. More about MVRDV adds orange stairs to Shanghai cement factory
Architecture studios Snøhetta and Benthem Crouwel Architects are designing the House of Culture and Administration, a city hall in the Netherlands that will have swooping roofs and full-height openings. More about Snøhetta and Benthem Crouwel Architects design Dutch city hall with "powerful silhouette"
Photos of the much-anticipated Zayed National Museum by British studio Foster + Partners in Abu Dhabi have been released ahead of its planned opening. More about Foster + Partners' Zayed National Museum revealed ahead of December opening
A trio of sweeping green roofs characterise this agricultural museum in Fujian Province, designed by Chinese studio Atelier Alter Architects to mirror the peaks of the nearby Wuyi Mountains. More about Atelier Alter Architects tops Sunner Museum in China with curved green roofs
Architecture firm Sp(r)int Studio has restored, extended and added polycarbonate roof panels to a 1950s timber structure protecting a Viking-era archaeological site in Iceland. More about Sp(r)int Studio shelters Viking ruins in Iceland with polycarbonate roof
Architecture studio WAU Design has completed a brick and concrete cultural centre sheltered by sloping roofs in Guangzhou, China. More about WAU Design completes cultural centre to preserve heritage of town in Guangzhou
International studio WHY Architecture has released images of the Dib Bangkok museum, which it claims will be "Thailand's first museum dedicated to international contemporary art". More about Photos of Thailand's first international contemporary art museum revealed