The new museums of 2020

MILAN - From Norway to France, from the USA to Japan, there are numerous museum structures, some signed by famous archistars, which will open this year. Here are 10 inaugurations that offer an excellent opportunity for a trip.
Artizon Museum. In Tokyo, the former Bridgestone Museum of Art changes its name and location: since January it has reopened in the Museum Tower Kyobashi with doubled spaces where 2,800 paintings are exhibited. The works belong to Shojiro Ishibashi, founder of a collection of western art, especially of impressionist paintings, which he has enriched over time. Info: artizon.museum Albertina Modern. It is the new home of the Albertina museum in Vienna which will be inaugurated on March 13 in the Künstlerhaus in Karlsplatz, in the heart of the Austrian capital. The 19th century building, restored and enlarged, will house 60,000 works of modern and contemporary art and the Essl collection with over a thousand pieces by artists such as Cindy Sherman, Tony Cragg and Alex Katz.
The museum will inaugurate the exhibition The Beginning.Art in Austria, 1945-1980 with innovators in the history of Austrian art after 1945. Info: albertina.at/albertina-modern Bassins de Lumières. On April 17, a huge concrete structure that expands above and below the water surface of Bordeaux will transform into the Bassins de Lumières museum, literally "basins of light": it is a huge digital art center, the most largest in the world, located in the old submarine base of the French city. The art center will be animated by bright projections that will reproduce the masterpieces of art history in giant format on walls, floors, ceilings and on the water. The inaugural exhibition will be Gustav Klimt: gold and color and will celebrate the work of the leader of the Viennese Secessionism while a minor exhibition will be dedicated to Paul Klee: painting music, a tribute to the pictorial world of the expressionist artist, accompanied by an underwater concert and by projections on the water surface. Info: bassins-lumieres.com ADI Design Museum. On April 18, on the eve of Milan Design Week 2020, in a disused old industrial area of ​​Porta Volta between via Ceresio and via Bramante, a new and large museum dedicated to design will open with 3 thousand square meters reserved for exhibition areas for over two thousand pieces on display .
The venue, which will officially open to the public in June, will host a permanent exhibition with objects awarded by the ADI Association for industrial design from 1954 to today and with thematic exhibitions. Info: adi-design.org Ges 2. In September the new headquarters of the VAC Foundation will be inaugurated in Moscow, an institution created to promote contemporary Russian art. The museum, the largest contemporary art space in the country, will be built in a former power plant of the early twentieth century converted by Renzo Piano in the heart of the city, on the Bolotnaya riverside. The museum also includes an auditorium with glass walls overlooking a birch forest, exhibition galleries, a library, a shop, a bookshop, cafes and restaurants.
Humboldt Forum. On the Museum Island of Berlin, which houses the most important art galleries in the German capital, a new cultural center is emerging: the Humboldt Forum. The architect Franco Stella is the designer of the new structure, a renovated historic building that blends the Baroque style with the contemporary one; inside the center there will be two different museums: the Ethnologisches Museum and the Asian art museum.
The inauguration is scheduled for September. Info: humboldtforum.org Munchmuseet. The largest museum in the world dedicated to a single artist will open in the autumn in Oslo: Edvard Munch. The new venue - a majestic glass skyscraper with a translucent perforated aluminum facade - will host 28,000 works by the iconic Norwegian painter in 11 rooms on 13 floors for permanent and temporary exhibitions and will also give space for concerts, events and cultural meetings. The museum, designed by the Spanish studio Herreros, will rise in the Bj ›rvika district, close to the river, and in front of the The Mother statue, a giant bronze sculpture representing a naked woman bent over an invisible child, designed by Tracey Emin in relation at the work of Munch, which will be inaugurated together with the museum. Info: munchmuseet.no Grand Egyptian Museum. The great Egyptian museum will rise in Cairo, near the Pyramids of Giza. It is the largest archaeological museum in the world, a huge complex with restoration laboratories, shops, restaurants, cinemas and a conference center; the main attraction will be the collection of 5,400 objects found in Tutankhamun's tomb and exhibited together for the first time. The museum's collection includes a total of 100 thousand Egyptian artifacts. The opening is scheduled for the second half of the year. Info: gem.gov.eg Museum of the Future. Waiting to host Expo 2020 in October, Dubai will inaugurate the museum of the future this year, a jewel of architecture and design designed for the first time in the world with an algorithm. The interactive museum, where hi-tech is the protagonist, will showcase the greatest innovations, prototype ideas and universal inventions, allowing visitors to interact with the displays inside the structure. It will also host seminars, conferences and courses to explore the most futuristic innovations. The oval-shaped work at a height of 78 meters is covered with stainless steel and glass facades and with a pattern motif that recalls Arabic calligraphy.
Academy Museum of Motion Picture. The world's largest cinema museum will open on December 14 in Los Angeles: designed by Renzo Piano on a former May Company department store from 1938, the building will flank a new structure similar to a glass sphere that seems to rise from the ground. The new museum will have a panoramic terrace covered by a transparent dome which will house a thousand-seat auditorium. The building will host exhibitions, interactive installations and spaces for entertainment as well as the collection of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, the same that manages the organization of the Oscars.
Info: academymuseum.org (ANSA).