has two projects on this list). Pushing forward into the 2020s, the 21st-century museum will fight to balance the old and new, the risks against the safe bets, and regionality with broader relevance in a rapidly globalizing world. Here’s a quick look at 10 of the biggest additions to the art world this year.
X Museum
Architect: TEMP
Budget: $1.5 million
Total space: Nearly 26,000 square feet
Planned opening: March 2020
Rendering of the X Museum in Beijing. © TEMP Studio.
, like
, as well as artists engaged with more traditional media, like painters
and
. Inspired by Huang’s time on the board of New York’s forward-thinking New Museum, the X Museum will open in the Chaoyang District during Gallery Weekend Beijing. Huang has said he’d like to feature work by scientists, engineers, and designers as well as artists. And the name “X” underscores this multidisciplinary attitude, branding the museum as an incubator for the “crossing” of continents, generations, and ideas.
Humboldt Forum
Architect: Franco Stella
Budget: $700 million
Total space: Over 322,000 square feet
Planned opening: Starting in September 2020, in phases

North facade of the Humboldt Forum, May 2019. © SHF / Stephan Falk.
and contemporary architecture, the Forum will bring together collections from Berlin’s Asian Art Museum and the Ethnological Museum, exhibitions from the City Museum of Berlin, and a project overseen by Humboldt University. It will also have a laboratory to investigate overlaps between nature and culture.
Bourse de Commerce
Architect: Tadao Ando
Budget: $170 million
Total space: Around 30,000 square feet
Planned opening: June 2020

Interior view of Pinault Art Collection. Photo by Maxime Tétard. Courtesy of Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection.

Interior view of Pinault Art Collection. Photo by Maxime Tétard. Courtesy of Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection.
and
and market stars like
and
.
He Art Museum
Architect: Tadao Ando
Budget: $28.3 million
Total space: 172,000 square feet
Planned opening: March 2020

Construction at the He Art Museum. ©HEM. Courtesy of the He Art Museum.
,
, and
. The museum’s director toldthe South China Morning Post that he envisions the institution as part of a “third wave” of private museums, defined by a focus on social context and engagement rather than just safe-bet artists housed in sleek new buildings. The inaugural show, “From the Mundane World,” will focus on the rapid modernization of southern China.
New Museum for Western Australia
Architect: HASSELL and OMA
Budget: $274.7 million
Total space: 339,000 square feet
Planned opening: November 2020

Exterior view of the New Museum for Western Australia. © Peter Bennetts. Courtesy of Hassell + OMA.
Albertina Modern
Architect: MHM Architects
Budget: $55.7 million
Total space: 26,910 square feet
Planned opening: March 12, 2020

Rendering of the Albertina Modern. © Christian Satek Werbeagentur G.m.b.H.
. For the opening show, the museum will mount works like
’s Woman Power (1979), which depicts a nude figure towering over an urban landscape, and
’s energetic, tactile abstractions.
The Momentary
Architect: Wheeler Kearns
Budget: Undisclosed
Total space: 63,000 square feet
Planned opening: February 22, 2020

The Momentary Green at the Momentary. Photo by Stephen Ironside. Courtesy of t he Momentary , Bentonville, Arkansas.
, who makes ceramics that combine traditional Korean aesthetics and internet icons, and
, who makes provocative sculptures with human hair.
The Kinder Building
Architect: Steven Holl
Budget: Part of a $450 million capital endowment
Additional space: 237,213 square feet
Planned opening: Fall 2020

Aerial view of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building. Photo © Richard Barnes.
and Venezuelan
; a bamboo, aluminum, and silk hanging sculpture of a dragon by Chinese dissident
; and tapestries made from found materials by Nigeria-based sculptor
.
Asian Art Museum
Architect: wHY
Budget: $38 million
Additional space: A new 13,000-square-foot pavilion and 7,500-square-foot terrace
Planned opening: Late Spring 2020

Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Pavilion rendering of the Asian Art Museum. © Asian Art Museum and wHY Architecture.
, the opening of the Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Pavilion at the Asian Art Museum is set to be one of the biggest art events of the year in San Francisco. The new space also includes the East West Bank Art terrace, which will showcase Ai Weiwei’s luminescent installation Fountain of Light. The product of a $100 million capital campaign, the expansion makes the museum—which started as a part of the de Young Museum and moved to its current location in a former public library in 2003—home to the largest single gallery space in San Francisco.
Munch Museum
Architect: Estudio Herreros
Budget: $312 million
Total space: 283,231 square feet
Planned opening: Spring 2020

Exterior view of Munch Museum. Courtesy of Ivar Kvaal.
. Just after the Nazis invaded Norway in 1940, Munch gave all of his works still in his possession—some 28,000 notebooks, paintings, sketches, and photographs—to the city of Oslo. This new and improved museum, now one of the largest single-artist museums in the world, will display about five times as many works as were displayed in the museum’s original 1963 building. Munch’s work will take up over half of the exhibition space, with the Stenersen collection and special exhibition artists filling the rest. Estudio Herreros designed the Lambda building to highlight the Norwegian landscape that inspired Munch, with glass walls offering views of nearby fjords.