To mark International Museum Day, we've selected 10 museums from the Dezeen archive that were designed by famous architects or are otherwise architecturally significant. More about Ten architecturally significant museums designed by famous studios
A subterranean gallery carved into a sand dune and a treehouse-style art museum feature in our latest lookbook, which collects striking gallery interiors from around the world. More about Ten gallery interiors that are artworks in their own right
With just three weeks until Dezeen Awards entries close, last year's winners detail the positive outcomes of winning and encourage other studios to enter. More about Winning a Dezeen Award "made me feel like anything is possible" say past winners
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features the cave-like Gilder Center in Manhattan designed by Studio Gang. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features "beautifully crafted" Gilder Center by Studio Gang
Italian architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed the landmark Istanbul Modern museum, which is its first project in Turkey. More about Renzo Piano wraps Istanbul Modern in facade "evocative of fish scales"
Chicago-based architecture firm Studio Gang has designed the Gilder Center in Manhattan to prioritize connectivity, creating a massive cavernous atrium meant to provoke a sense of exploration and discovery. More about Studio Gang designs cave-like Gilder Center for American Museum of Natural History
Dutch practice Kaan Architecten has extended the Museum Paleis Het Loo in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, concealing over 5,000 square meters of visitor spaces beneath a public courtyard and fountain. More about Kaan Architecten's underground extension to Dutch museum is designed to "radiate grandeur"
Brooklyn studio O'Neill McVoy Architects has adapted a historic powerhouse into a museum for children in the Bronx that highlights the historical building while adding playful details. More about O'Neill McVoy inserts mass-timber children's museum into 1920s Bronx powerhouse
American artist Lauren Halsey has completed a monumental installation on the rooftop garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City that adapts "elements of ancient Egyptian architecture and sculpture for a contemporary context". More about Lauren Halsey covers monumental Egyptian installation on Met rooftop with LA street art
Chicago-based Studio Gang has completed the overhaul of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, Arkansas, with the addition of a sculptural folded concrete roof. More about Studio Gang unites Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts buildings with folded concrete canopy
BIG, Gehry Partners and Perkins&Will are among the five studios that have been selected as finalists in a contest to design the future National Museum of the US Navy. More about BIG and Frank Gehry among studios with "singular visions" for US Navy Museum
In this week's comments update, readers discussed Niall McLaughlin Architects' red-brick International Rugby Experience museum in Limerick, Ireland. More about "Clearly gorgeous but how does it celebrate the game of rugby?" asks commenter
Stirling Prize-winning studio Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed a seven-storey museum in Limerick, Ireland, with vaulted ceilings and walls designed to "reflect the forces found in rugby". More about Niall McLaughlin Architects creates red-brick beacon for International Rugby Experience in Ireland
British designer Thomas Heatherwick's studio is designing the Jeddah Central Museum in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which will be located in a former desalination plant by the Red Sea. More about Heatherwick set to turn Saudi Arabian desalination plant into museum
Engaging design has the power to make the future tangible, The Liminal Space co-founder Sarah Douglas tells Dezeen in this interview. More about "Design enables you to step into an imagined space" says The Liminal Space co-founder Sarah Douglas
Selldorf Architects, Diamond Schmitt and Two Row Architect have released designs for a gallery to be added to the complex of buildings at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. More about Selldorf Architects and Diamond Schmitt release design for Art Gallery of Ontario's seventh expansion
Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu has added an extension to the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts in Xi'an, China, that was designed to "serve as a source of illumination for the surrounding urban fabric". More about Neri&Hu adds "glowing lantern" on top of Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts in Xi’an
Architecture studios Kuehn Malvezzi, Pelletier de Fontenay and Jodoin Lamarre Pratte Architectes have created an insect zoo and museum with interiors that emulate the experience of being a bug. More about Kuehn Malvezzi designs Montreal Insectarium to subvert "museological norms and expectations"
A rammed-earth extension is set to be added to the neoclassical National Archaeological Museum in Athens as part of a refurbishment by David Chipperfield Architects' studio in Berlin. More about David Chipperfield designs rammed-earth extension for Athens museum
Curved buildings and a massive earthen mound feature at a museum in Oklahoma that was designed by architecture studio Johnson Fain over two decades ago and is finally complete. More about Johnson Fain completes curvilinear First Americans Museum after decades of work