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Renzo Piano Building Workshop, an Italian architecture firm, has finished the monumental Istanbul Modern Museum, its first project in Turkey. Istanbul Modern was founded in 2004 as Turkey’s first modern and contemporary art museum.

The Luigi Rovati Foundation Museum is the world’s first underground museum of Etruscan culture, integrating exhibitions, collection protection, popular science education, and scientific research. A building that travels between past, present, and future.

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)’s Twist Museum is located in Kistefos Sculpture Park in Jevnaker, Norway, and crosses the Randselva River with its curve shape.

The location once was the refugee Camp of the World War II era and now houses a 1600 m2 museum. FLUGT museum depicts the life of refugees worldwide and acts as a connection between the past and the present.

Milwaukee’s new museum by Ennead Architects and Kahler Slater, is motivated by the biological history of Wisconsin and reflects the culture of the city

The Zhou Yao Insect Museum, is relocated to a new building designed by DDB Architects +Sitarch Lab, inspired by butterflies.

The Munch Museum, an award-winning project completed by Estudio Herreros in Oslo, it showcase a modern museum idea that emphasizes architecture’s urban function and historical responsibility of Oslo and the entire country.

The Museum of Ethnography is a curved dynamic structure housing a diverse display of Hungarian and international history.

In Uncoverd’s first episode, Luka will expose less-known facts about the MAXXI Museum by Zaha Hadid architects. The MAXXI Museum results from an international competition established by the Ministry of Heritage and Culture in 1998 to build a new Center for Contemporary Arts. Zaha Hadid’s design has been the winner of an international design competition.

A simple geometric expression fused by an organically morphed inner form. Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame frames a linear edifice designed by Trahan Architects in Natchitoches. The design envisaged horizontal slats in the oldest settlement of Louisiana Purchase, gleams and lustre in the blooming sun. Sitting amiably on the banks of the Cane River Lake, the architects inhaled their inspiration from the riverfront setting. Incorporating early sustainable practices and the 17th-century bousillage building techniques of the French settlers, the design oriented to an elemental angle.