Maritime Museum news

National Museums Liverpool has received planning approval to redevelop the International Slavery Museum and Maritime Museum into one museum telling Britain’s maritime history and its ... More

Adjaye Associates and Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA) have been named as the preferred bidders to lead the design of a £57m redevelopment of the International ... More

The National Maritime Museum of China, designed by COX Architecture, has opened in Tianjin after a six-year design and construction process. Covering an area of ... More

The winners of the Museums + Heritage Awards were announced in London last night (15 May), with museums large and small being honoured and Sir ... More

A £27.5m scheme to renovate the maritime attractions in Hull has been unveiled by the city’s council. The Maritime Museum, North End Shipyard, Arctic Corsair ... More

The National Maritime Museum (NMM) in Greenwich, London has opened four new galleries in a £12.6m (US$16.5m, €14.3m) renovation project on its east wing. Designed ... More

Architecture firm Purcell will create an extension to the historic home of the University of Manchester - Manchester Museum, after winning planning and listed building ... More

"Increasingly, we don't just want to make a good looking version of something that's already been done, we want to take the initiative in giving ... More

Hull’s museums, including the Ferens Art Gallery, the Hull History Centre and the Arctic Corsair trawler have recorded more than one million visitors since January, ... More

Bjarke Ingels Group’s (BIG) transformation of a former German WWII bunker into a cultural complex camouflaged among the protected dunes of Blåvand, western Denmark, has ... More

The World Architecture Festival has today (7 July) unveiled the largest ever shortlist for its Building of the Year competition. WAF – one of the ... More

The winners of this year’s Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence have been announced, with shortlisted projects celebrated and recognised across the museums, galleries, heritage ... More

Danish toymaker the LEGO Group has revealed new photographs, renderings and an aerial drone video of its forthcoming Bjarke Ingels-designed brand museum in the city ... More

Visitors will be thrown in at the deep end as they discover what it’s like to work on on an offshore energy platform far out ... More

Leisure architecture was a big winner on the opening day of the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Berlin, with a quintet of projects triumphing in ... More

The director of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), Patrik Schumacher, has vowed the studio will continue to flourish despite the death of their pioneering founder earlier ... More

St Louis Science Center in Missouri, US, is teaming up with Boeing for a new interactive exhibition exploring the wonder of flight and innovation in ... More

Attractions Management understands that the award-winning design for China’s new National Maritime Museum, created by Australian practice Cox Rayner Architects, is now likely to be ... More

India’s government is planning to develop 78 lighthouses as tourist destinations, using a number of attractions to entice visitors to the country’s coastline. Operating under ... More

The winner of the 2015 Mies van der Rohe Award has been announced as Barozzi / Veiga’s extraordinary, glowing concert venue, the Philharmonic Hall in ... More

Safdie Architects have unveiled plans for South Carolina’s National Medal of Honor Museum – a five-point design presenting the history of the US’s most decorated ... More

Four of the five finalists nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – the Mies van der Rohe Award – involve leisure-related architecture. ... More

Two giant glass floors 42m (138ft) above the Thames have opened at Tower Bridge as part of a new attraction marking its 120th birthday. The ... More

The World Architecture Festival, held in Singapore from 1 to 3 October, ended on a high note, with awards distributed to firms from all over ... More

The Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth was among the chief winners at the Museums and Heritage Awards on May 14, scooping two trophies at the ... More