At a time when many museums around the world are forced to sell works from their collections to meet their financial needs and others are making drastic staff cuts as a result of the dramatic drop in tickets - one might think that 230 million visitors welcomed museums worldwide in 2019 and just 54 million in 2020 - and reduced government grants, the six museums in Europe, America and Africa expected to open their doors in 2022 are heralding a harbinger of a new, better era that everyone hopes will come with new year.
OSLO, NORWAY
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
The opening of the new National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design of Norway is scheduled for June 11, 2022. The Oslo Museum was founded in the early 2000s by merging four museums - including the National Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art - to create a large collection of objects including Roman sculptures, impressive late 12th-century tapestries, porcelain from Imperial China and perhaps Norway's most famous work of art, the "Scream" by Edward Munch.
The new building, with a total area of 54.600 sq.m. - the largest of its kind in the Nordic countries -, signed by the architects Kleihues + Schuwerk, is located on the seafront of the city. Its basic building material is marble, it cost about 645 million euros, has more than double the exhibition space - namely 90 rooms that will host 5.000 exhibits - while its first periodic exhibition has already been announced, at 2.400 sq.m. Room of Light, which will focus on the contemporary art scene of Norway.
TULSA, USA
Bob Dylan Center
Rendezvous on May 10 with Bob Dylan's fans at the mall that bears his name and will open in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with the goal of leveraging his collection of more than 100.000 items. Visitors will be able to listen to unreleased recordings by the ten-time Grammy-winning singer and songwriter.
Notebooks, letters and other manuscripts will highlight the literary sensibilities that led the Swedish Academy to award him the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. Self Portrait ”(1970) or through his expressionist works. Documentaries and film concerts will be shown in a special room, and an exact copy of his recording studio will be set up so that visitors feel as if they were present in one of the historical recordings of their favorite creator.
NEW YORK, USA
Broadway Museum
The ideal museum for theatrical fans, and more specifically for musical lovers, opens this summer in New York, in Times Square. This is the Broadway Museum, which will tell the story of the historic area from 1735, when the first theater opened, until today. It is worth noting that, before the pandemic hit, Broadway had lived its best season in history, with revenues of $ 1,8 billion in 2019.
Through interactive facilities, visitors will get information about the pioneers of the theatrical industry, visit the backstage of historical musicals and discover how a Broadway show is organized.
GLASKOVI, SCOTLAND
Barrel Collection
One of the largest collections of works of art in the world, which took three quarters of a century to compose, that of Sir William Barrel, acquires the roof it deserves in Glasgow. The museum in Pollock Park had been closed since 2016 and its reconstruction to safely house the Barrel collection - which cost 68 XNUMX million - has been completed, with the opening scheduled for March of the new year.
The collection, which is famous for the quality of Chinese works of art, exquisite stained glass, tapestries and works of art will be presented on three floors, while the exhibition spaces that will have increased by 35% will allow the presentation of objects that were previously in the warehouses. .
PARIS, FRANCE
Gainsbourg House
Closed to the public since his death in 1991, the interior of the home of the famous (and controversial) French singer Serge Gainsbourg will open in early 2022, in Paris, as a museum dedicated to his life and work.
The house has been preserved as a time capsule as nothing has been touched for three decades, so that visitors can see and smell even its last cigarette butts in an ashtray. The main attraction will be the famous eccentric lounge of the musician with the piano, the art deco bar and the huge collection of sculptures.
GIZA, EGYPT
Great Egyptian Museum
The inauguration of the Great Egyptian Museum, which claims to be the largest archeological museum in the world, dedicated to a culture, is being relocated, this time between September and November 2022. The building covers 490.000 sq.m., as large as airport terminal. The largest exhibit will be a statue of Ramses the Great made of red granite, 11 m high and weighing 83 tons, which was the first to be placed in its final position, in early 2018, to build the patio around of.
In total, the museum will house about 100.000 exhibits, including a collection of 3.300-year-old finds that later accompanied the famous pharaoh Tutankhamun and which consists of 5.000 pieces, 2.000 of which will be presented for the first time. The cost of the museum is estimated at $ 1 billion.
Source: In.gr