TOP 10 museums and cultural venues of 2022

SPOTLIGHTING THE TOP museums OF 2022

 

From adaptive renovations and climate-regulating structures to monumental buildings and irregular volumes, 2022 saw the opening of many exciting museums and cultural centers. During the year, designboom reported on several highly-anticipated projects by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Kengo Kuma Associates, Olson Kundig, and many more. Despite varying briefs and locations, our TOP 10 list of the biggest and best museums of the year features bold designs that will attract visitors from around the world. 

 

We continue our annual review of this year’s BIG stories with a look at the TOP 10 museums and cultural venues featured on designboom in 2022.

 

 

 

BIG ADDS A CURVED CORTEN STEEL CORNER TO NEW REFUGEE MUSEUM OF DENMARK

 

image © Rasmus Hjortshøj

 

Bjarke Ingels Group / BIG has designed a museum dedicated to refugees in Oksbøl, at the site of Denmark‘s largest refugee camp from World War II. Named ‘FLUGT’ the new cultural building gives a voice and a face to refugees worldwide and captures the universal challenges, emotions, spirit, and stories shared by displaced humans.

 

‘The Refugee Museum of Denmark explores an important part of our history and a theme that is more relevant than ever, with millions of refugees currently displaced from their homes,’ says Bjarke Ingels. 

 

For this adaptive reuse project, BIG transformed and extended one of the camp’s few remaining structures—a hospital building—into a 1,600 sqm museum.

 

 

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GLENSTONE MUSEUM ADDS NEW BUILDING DEDICATED TO SINGLE NEW WORK BY RICHARD SERRA

image © Glenstone Museum

 

Glenstone Museum in Potomac has opened a new Thomas Phifer and Partners-designed building to house the sculpture Four Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure, 2017, by Richard Serra. Designed in collaboration with the artist, the 4,000-square-foot concrete structure is the first new construction on the museum’s grounds since the opening of the pavilions in 2018.

 

The new building marks an addition to the overall collection of austere and minimal pavilions sited in Maryland and all realized by Thomas Phifer and Partners.

 

 

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OLSON KUNDIG WEAVES TOGETHER THE COMPLEX LIFE AND WORK OF BOB DYLAN IN TULSA

image © Matthew Millman

 

Olson Kundig celebrates the completion of the Bob Dylan Center, a project combining immersive exhibition design and restoration all spanning a whole block in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The space occupies a 100 year-old building that was once a paper factory, a context which plays a great role in the all-American spirit of the project.

 

This was an international design competition which partners Alan Maskin and Tom Kundig pursued jointly — it proved to be the perfect match as Olson Kundig is one of the few firms in the world that specializes in both architecture and exhibit design. Actually this wasn’t the team’s first proposal. The original design proposed an entirely new building which fused the exhibits with newly built architecture. Shortly after the group was awarded the project five years ago, the warehouse space — a former gallery adjacent to the Woody Guthrie Center — had become available and a new piece of architecture was not needed. Since that moment, the team focused entirely on exhibit design.

 

In the early stages of the process, it was announced that Bob Dylan himself — who is just celebrating his 81st birthday this Tuesday, May 24th — would not be involved in the project. ‘I was actually incredibly relieved,’ Alan Maskin told designboom, ‘because I didn’t want to make a monument to a rock star. I wanted to use the example of his life and career and his creative trajectory as an example for others.’

 

 

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