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The Fox: NGV Contemporary Targets a 2028 Opening in Melbourne
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ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 2.3 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the source[1]: NGV Contemporary "is slated to open in 2028."The National Gallery of Victoria's new contemporary art wing, The Fox: NGV Contemporary, is under construction in Melbourne's Southbank arts precinct with a targeted 2028 opening, part of a rivalry with Hobart's MONA.0.63Len Lye Centre Opens as New Zealand's First Single-Artist Museum
42 Queen Street, New Plymouth, New Zealand
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE11.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The Len Lye Centre was opened on 25 July 2015. This is the first gallery in New Zealand to be dedicated to a single artist."The Len Lye Centre, clad in curved stainless-steel columns, opened in New Plymouth as New Zealand's first museum dedicated to a single artist.$8.3M0.62Louvre Abu Dhabi Opens on Saadiyat Island
Louvre Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE8.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Friday marks five years since Louvre[2] Abu Dhabi welcomed the first members of the public" (published 11 Nov 2022).Jean Nouvel's dome-topped museum, the first Louvre outpost outside France, opens to the public five years behind its original schedule.0.62Zeitz MOCAA Opens in Cape Town
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE9.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Zeitz MOCAA[3] opens: South Africa's new contemporary art museum".Heatherwick Studio's Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa opens inside a converted Cape Town grain silo, becoming the continent's largest contemporary art museum.$40M0.61LACMA Opens Peter Zumthor's David Geffen Galleries
5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles, CA 90036, United StatesLos Angeles County Museum of Art
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE157 days agoLACMA's[1] own press release names the day: the David Geffen Galleries "open April 19". The museum is announcing its own building, so the date needs no inference.LACMA's permanent collection moved into a new home on 19 April 2026: a 275-metre curved building of glass and concrete that steps over Wilshire Boulevard on splayed piers, lifting 10,220 square metres of galleries some nine metres above the street. It completes a campus rebuild two decades in the making, replacing four of the museum's ageing buildings with a single level where the collection is shown without a fixed route through it.0.61Jewel Changi Airport Opens in Singapore
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE7.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Jewel Changi Airport[3] officially opened to the public on Wednesday 17 April 2019."The Jewel, a 3,500-tonne glass dome housing the world's tallest indoor waterfall and thousands of trees, opened at Singapore's Changi Airport, fulfilling a vision for a garden city dating to the 1960s.S$1.7B0.61The Vessel Opens at Hudson Yards
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE7.5 years agoConfirmed against contemporaneous coverage of the public opening. Happened as dated, per the source[1]: "The Vessel opened to the public on March 15, 2019".Thomas Heatherwick's climbable honeycomb staircase, The Vessel, opens to the public as the centrepiece of Manhattan's new Hudson Yards district.0.60Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Opens on Saadiyat Island
Solomon R. Guggenheim FoundationCulture District, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEin 79 daysAbu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism named 11 December 2026 in a joint announcement with the Guggenheim[1] Foundation in late July 2026; the foundation's own press release carries the date.Twenty years after it was announced, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opens on 11 December 2026 as the largest museum in the Guggenheim family - about 80,000 square metres, against roughly a quarter of that in New York. Frank Gehry arranged it around a single tall atrium with galleries threaded between ten sculptural cones, nine sheathed in stainless steel mesh and one in onyx and glass, so the roofline reads as a cluster of towers from across the Culture District.0.60Confeitaria Colombo Opens in Central Rio
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE131.7 years agoThe article gives the founding year only - established 1894 - so the pin sits on that year's last day.[1]Confeitaria Colombo opened in 1894 and fitted itself out like a Parisian tea room transplanted to the tropics - Belgian mirrors, Italian marble, a jacaranda counter and a stained-glass skylight over the hall. It became the meeting room of Rio's belle epoque and is now listed as heritage.0.59Gardens by the Bay's Flower Dome Opens as the World's Largest Columnless Glasshouse
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE14.2 years agoGardens by the Bay and multiple news sources give 29 June 2012 as the park's public opening date, with the Flower Dome later Guinness-certified in 2015.[1]Singapore's Gardens by the Bay opened on 29 June 2012, its Flower Dome conservatory later certified by Guinness World Records as the world's largest glass greenhouse.0.59The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Opens in Exposition Park
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1 day agoThe museum's own site carries "Opening September 22, 2026" beside its ticket link, so the day comes from the institution itself.[1]George Lucas's museum of narrative art opens to the public on 22 September 2026 in Exposition Park, after a build that ran years past its first target date. It is given over to storytelling as art - illustration, comics, film and the painted image side by side - rather than to a single medium, and it lands beside the Natural History Museum and the California Science Center in the city's museum quarter.0.58Kronenhalle Opens in Zurich
Kronenhalle, 4, Rämistrasse, Hochschulen, Altstadt, Zurich, District Zurich, Zurich, 8001, SwitzerlandKronenhalle
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE101.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - established 1924 - so the pin takes that year's last day.[1]Hulda Zumsteg took over the Kronenhalle in 1924 and ran it for half a century, taking paintings in part payment and hanging them where the diners sat - so the walls now carry Chagall, Miró, Picasso and Matisse above the tables where Joyce and Giacometti ate.0.58
