Norway's new National Museum is set to open to the public on June 11, 2022, after an eight-year construction period. This massive state-owned structure, a focal point of Oslo's refurbished waterfront, brings together the collections of Norway's National Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, and Museum of Decorative Arts under one roof, making it the Nordic country's largest museum. The magnificent slate-covered structure is also part of Norway's FutureBuilt pilot program, which is one of the hundreds of pilot projects aimed at lowering the country's greenhouse gas emissions by at least half of the present levels.

Approximately 5,000 paintings from the museum's 400,000-piece collection are distributed across two floors and roughly 90 rooms for visitors to browse. From a nearly 1,000-year-old Baldishol tapestry to works by notable painters like Vincent van Gogh and Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland, whose bronze and granite human sculptures adorn the city's own Frogner Park, there's something for everyone. The museum will also include a collection of Edvard Munch's paintings, including the classic masterpiece The Scream by the Norwegian painter. The museum's cutting-edge Light Hall, a rooftop pavilion outfitted with 9,000 changeable LED lights that illuminate the night sky, will host special exhibits.

Address: Norway Brynjulf Bulls Plass 3, 0250, Oslo
Website: nasjonalmuseet.no

Summer 2022 near Times Square, the first-ever permanent museum dedicated to the "Great White Way" and its legacy of musicals, plays, and theaters, as well as the pioneering figures who helped shape it—from players to costume designers—opens. The multi-story Museum of Broadway will feature both interactive installations (which are still in the works) and traditional exhibits that recount the story of the famed theatrical area, from its beginnings in 1735 to current performances like Hamilton.

This fusion of art and technology will be divided into three sections: a Broadway map room with immersive video projections; a visual Broadway timeline with stories behind groundbreaking musicals like Hair and Rent, as well as how women led the way in much of Broadway's early storytelling; and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a Broadway show, from set design to lighting. Show-specific merchandise, as well as bespoke Broadway mementos, are sold in an on-site retail store.

Address: 145 W 45th St, New York, NY 10036, United States
Website: themuseumofbroadway.com

Tulsa industrialist George Kaiser's family foundation joined with the University of Tulsa in 2016 to purchase the Bob Dylan Archive, a more than 100,000-piece collection that spans the legendary singer and songwriter's entire career. The Bob Dylan Center, a three-story museum set to open in Tulsa's burgeoning Arts District in May, will be home to an exclusive collection of Dylan artifacts. The museum tells the story of Bob Dylan, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time and a prolific visual artist, through everything from handwritten manuscripts to unreleased concert recordings, charting his life from his early days in Duluth, Minnesota, to his Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.

Visitors can imagine what it was like to be present during the recording of renowned songs like "Tangled Up in Blue", watch excerpts of Dylan documentaries and performances, and hear the earliest known Dylan recording of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", which he sang with other lyrics. There will also be public presentations, performances, and talks.

Address: 116 E Reconciliation Way, Tulsa, OK 74103, United States
Website: bobdylancenter.com

The ICA San Francisco is a non-collecting contemporary art museum, which means that when it opens to the public this fall, there will be no permanent works on show. Instead, the emphasis is on the artists, with a 50/50 split between young Bay Area artists on the cusp of national or international recognition and more established local and international artists. The 11,000-square-foot warehouse space at ICA, which was previously a fitness center, may accommodate large-scale installations or works with unusual proportions. The museum's move away from acquisitions gives it more freedom to produce programs that are more responsive to the times.

A group show of Bay Area artists coordinated by the local See Black Womxn organization will feature new works by Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson, who is recognized for his abstract artworks using traditional Native American patterns and materials.

Address: 901 Minnesota Street San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
Website: icasanfrancisco.org

Archaeologists discovered a great hall and a series of other timber buildings that were once part of the royal summer palace for 7th-century Northumbrian kings and queens, including Oswald of Northumbria, who later became Saint Oswald, in the mid-20th century, and became one of the most significant early medieval finds in North East England. The Yeavering excavations were part of the Anglo-Saxon "Golden Age", a period of classical rebirth marked by international trade and cultural interchange. Many people are unaware of these excavations and their history. That, however, is about to change.

The neighboring Ad Gefrin Visitor Center, which will open this fall, will convey the tale of the royal complex through a multimedia experience that combines audio-visual technology with archaeological artifacts - some excavated on-site at Yeavering and others on loan from foreign collections. The center will be a full-scale reproduction of the great hall, complete with projected films that bring the royal court and its inhabitants to life.

Address: South Road, Wooler NE71 6NJ, England
Website: adgefrin.co.uk

Beijing's Palace Museum has teamed with Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District Authority to construct a museum of Chinese art, history, and culture in Hong Kong, where remnants of a pro-democracy movement are fading. This is the Palace Museum's first partnership outside of China. The seven-story Hong Kong Palace Museum on the Victoria Harbour waterfront, which is set to open in July, will have nearly 82,000 square feet of exhibit space and hundreds of Palace artifacts (some of which have never been publicly displayed), ranging from ancient Chinese jade to rare manuscripts, as well as contemporary works.

The museum's architecture is a mix of classic and contemporary forms, as well as old Chinese art and the urban setting of Hong Kong. It also has a central core of three glass atriums, each one atop the other, with views of the harbor; the architectural feature is a tribute to the central axis of the Forbidden City, which is also the major axis of Beijing.

Address: West Kowloon Cultural District, 8 Museum Drive, Kowloon
Website: hkpm.org.hk

Nearly half of all African slaves carried to the United States passed via Gadsden's Wharf in Charleston, which will host the International African American Museum in late 2022. The new museum promises to tell never-before-told African American journey stories, as well as the history of enslaved Africans and free blacks in South Carolina's Lowcountry, and their descendants. Visitors can learn about historical figures and events dating back to the beginning of slavery, South Carolina's role in the development of the international slave trade, and the spread of African American culture and its global impact, including how African Americans have shaped politics and the ongoing fight for racial justice and equality.

A free-to-the-public African Ancestors Memorial Garden, with lush botanic gardens and artist installations, provides a place of reflection along the same shoreline where tens of thousands of captive Africans first set foot, while the museum's Center for Family History allows members of the African diaspora to trace their genealogy.

Address: 14 Wharfside St Charleston, Nam Carolina, South Carolina, United States
Website: iaamuseum.org

The foundation for this nonprofit Museum of Art & Photography is prominent Indian benefactor Abhishek Poddar's collection of Indian art, photography, and textiles, which comprises an ever-growing assemblage of more than 18,000 artworks from the 10th century to the present day. The real five-story museum is set to open later this year, but it's already running a series of digital exhibitions, including "Rock City", an audio-visual presentation documenting rock and pop performances staged in Bangalore, Delhi, and Mumbai in the early 2000s.

A watercolor painting of the sacred text, Bhagavata Purana, from 1800; a 19th century Kalamkari Prayer Mat; and a film poster from the 1957 Hindu-language epic movie, Mother India, make up the majority of the museum's collection. Another interesting museum feature is the digital M F Husain: An AI Experience, in which visitors can ask a "digital persona" of the late Progressive Artists' Group painter, M F Husain, questions and receive a well-researched answer from his simulated voice, which was created using speech synthesis software. All of this is available on the museum's website, as well as in-person soon.

Address: 26/1 Sua House, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001, India
Website: map-india.org

The House of Music, Hungary is built next to the Városliget lake near Vajdahunyad Castle and the building overlooking the ice rink on the location of the Hungexpo offices, which were a blight on the park for decades and are now destroyed. The skyscraper, built by Japanese star architect Sou Fujimoto, is almost totally transparent and environmentally friendly, with the goal of creating a peaceful transition between the natural and man-made worlds. According to Fujimoto, designing a modern museum is a huge goal for any architect, and the House of Music in Hungary encompasses everything that makes museum architecture fascinating today: Because a traditional exhibition space is no longer appealing, it must be blended with additional uses such as performance halls and teaching spaces.

The House of Music, Hungary's permanent exhibition will cover the history of music from the invention of the human voice to current trends, with a focus on Hungarian music and its rich history. Children, their parents and instructors, as well as young adults, are the institution's primary audience. This is a diverse group of people who may or may not have any musical training and are unlikely to attend classical music concerts on a regular basis. This "castle of musical miracles", constructed on innovative installations and technological solutions, allows visitors to experience firsthand the foundations of musical harmony and the physiology of sound perception, bringing genuine joy to each visitor.

Address: Olof Palme Stny 3, Budapest 1146, Hungary

Website: magyarzenehaza.com

One of the most long-awaited new museum projects of recent years, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) will finally open its doors in 2022. In January 2022, it was announced that work on the project is 99% complete. Between the pyramids and Cairo, the Grand Egyptian Museum is situated on the edge of the first desert plateau. The Nile carves its way through the desert to the Mediterranean, creating a geological state that has molded Egypt for almost 3,000 years.

The museum will be a cultural complex dedicated to Egyptology, with 24,000m2 of permanent display space, equivalent to roughly four football fields, a children's museum, conference and education facilities, a huge conservation center, and enormous gardens on the 50-hectare site. The museum's collections include the Tutankhamen collection, which is now kept in Cairo's Egyptian Museum, and the Solar Boat, which is now placed alongside the pyramids.

Address: Alexandria Desert Rd, Kafr Nassar, Al Haram, Giza Governorate, Egypt

Website: grandegyptianmuseum.org