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For the last years of his life, world-renowned artist Edvard Munch lived in a remote cabin in a forest outside of Oslo, where the solitude helped him produce hundreds of paintings and drawings...

Prolific architect Thomas Heatherwick just finished transforming an old grain silo in Cape Town into South Africa's largest art museum - the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa...

Some artists prefer to work with top-of-the-line elements, but Taiwanese artist Shih Chieh Huang can do wonders with a ubiquitous dollar store material like painter's plastic...

New Yorkers looking for a place to cool off during the summer will do well to duck into Long Island City’s MoMA PS1 - and it’s not just because the museum’s galleries are air-conditioned...

Barack Obama's Chicago roots run deep. The nation's 44th president worked as a community organizer on the South Side where he launched his political career by winning a seat in the Illinois State Senate. His wife, First Lady...

As President Obama looks to a future post POTUS, one of his foundation's first tasks will be to construct the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. President Franklin Roosevelt formally started the presidential library tradition...

All of the exhibition’s 20 installations are nature-themed and the most striking of them are those which respond to the presence of visitors, underscoring the delicate balance that exists between humans and nature...

Established in 1912 in Norway’s Molde Municipality, the Romsdal Folk Museum houses an extensive collection of prints, photographs, and text, as well as over 40 buildings that date back from the 16th to the 20th centuries...

Located 15 meters beneath the surface, the contemporary Museo Atlantico will feature approximately 300 eco-friendly sculptures as well as an underwater botanical garden filled with sculptural hybrids of people and native...

Located downstream of the historic Peterborough Lift Lock, the 7,500-square-meter Canadian Canoe Museum overlooks the canal and surrounding forest through glazed walls that wrap around the entire building...

The museum has a key role to play in public education. But that doesn’t just happen in the galleries and exhibition spacesEvery year, the Natural History Museum hosts an outdoor ice skating rink. It’s a great day out...

Angus’ awe-inspiring exhibit begins with the visitor’s first glimpse of the room: a shocking hot pink color that assaults the senses and covers the room; the bright color contrasts with the museum’s otherwise demure...

Angus’ awe-inspiring exhibit begins with the visitor’s first glimpse of the room: a shocking hot pink color that assaults the senses and covers the room; the bright color contrasts with the museum’s otherwise demure...

Part land art and part building, the renovated Biesbosch Museum includes a new 1,000-square-meter wing comprising exhibition space, a restaurant, offices, and a visitor center...

Part land art and part building, the renovated Biesbosch Museum includes a new 1,000-square-meter wing comprising exhibition space, a restaurant, offices, and a visitor center...