Construction work has begun on Foster + Partners' new wing for the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, a project that was first announced in 2013 (+ slideshow). More about Works begins on Foster + Partners' Norton Museum expansion in Florida's West Palm Beach
A group of young Finnish architects have won a competition to integrate two museums by Modernist architect Alvar Aalto – but have been told their design needs "a lot of development". More about Winners chosen for Alvar Aalto museum extension but told to improve their design
BIG, OMA and Zaha Hadid Architects have all been shortlisted to design a major new museum in Budapest, which will be built alongside cultural buildings by SANAA and Sou Fujimoto. More about Bjarke, Rem and Zaha battle to join Sou Fujimoto and SANAA at Budapest museum park
British architect David Chipperfield has unveiled his design for a museum in Agra, India, which is now under construction next to the Taj Mahal. More about Work starts on David Chipperfield-designed museum beside Taj Mahal
A pair of museums entirely dedicated to French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent's life and work are set to open in Paris and Marrakech in 2017, including a new building by Studio KO (+ slideshow). More about Two new museums will pay homage to Yves Saint Laurent
Irish studio Heneghan Peng Architects has unveiled its competition-winning design for the Canadian Canoe Museum in Ontario – a wavy waterside structure with glass walls and a grass roof (+ slideshow). More about Heneghan Peng unveils winning design for canoe museum in Canada
Christ & Gantenbein has unveiled its new wing for the National Museum Zurich – an angular concrete edifice conceived by the Swiss architects as a robust and spacious "museum factory" (+ slideshow). More about Christ & Gantenbein adds raw concrete extension to National Museum Zurich
London-based Mossessian Architecture has won a competition to design the Makkah Museum, a new building dedicated to the Islamic faith in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (+ movie). More about London architect to build Islamic faith museum in Mecca
New York-based Diller Scofidio + Renfro has added a sculptural metal volume to a 1930s printing plant to form the new home for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in California (+ slideshow). More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s museum and film centre in Berkeley will open this month
London studio Carmody Groarke has been selected to design the new members' room for the V&A museum in London. More about Carmody Groarke to design new members' room for V&A museum
Tobacco-making equipment and artwork sit side-by-side within the tile-screened volumes of this museum in Spain's Cáceres region, which was designed by local studio Losada García Arquitectos (+ slideshow). More about Stacked blocks form Spanish tobacco and art museum by Losada García Arquitectos
This art museum by Chinese firm Praxis d'Architecture features textured tiled walls, protruding windows and stepping roof terraces that overlook a lake near Beijing (+ slideshow). More about Staggered terraces cover roof of Beijing art museum by Praxis d'Architecture
Officials in Massachusetts have announced plans for a pair of new museums designed by New York studio Gluckman Tang in the state's northwestern region (+ slideshow). More about Gluckman Tang designs museums for art and model trains in western Massachusetts
Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's science museum with a skeletal roof that projects over a public plaza has opened in Rio de Janeiro (+ slideshow). More about Museum of Tomorrow by Santiago Calatrava opens in Rio de Janeiro
China's rush to build thousands of new museums is leading to cultural buildings "with no vision and mediocre collections", according to architects and curators in the country (+ slideshow). More about China "can't buy culture" with museum boom, say critics
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles reopened this week following an extensive renovation, featuring a new wavy steel and aluminium facade designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (+ slideshow). More about LA's Petersen Automotive Museum reopens with KPF-designed metal-ribbon facade
The hexagonal pyramids on the roof of this museum are now covered in a layer of grass, helping the building settle into its marshland environment in the Netherlands (+ slideshow). More about Studio Marco Vermeulen adds grass blanket over rooftop pyramids of Dutch island museum
Shift Architecture Urbanism has built a spherical cinema, a cube-shaped gallery and an elevated walkway to create a complex of design, science and technology museums in the Netherlands (+ slideshow). More about Trio of geometric forms by Shift Architecture Urbanism form new Dutch museum complex
German studio KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten's glass-covered design for the Shenzhen Art Museum and Library complex in China beat proposals from a number of star architects. More about KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten wins competition to design Shenzhen Art Museum and Library
This "floating" art and literary museum by American studio OLI Architecture is housed in a grouping of textured concrete blocks, which are elevated over a lake in China's Zhejiang Province (+ slideshow). More about Mu Xin Art Museum by OLI Architecture sits over a lake in eastern China