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LACMA 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.0.6653W53 Completes Above Manhattan's MoMA
53 West 53rd Street, Midtown East, Manhattan, New York, NY 10019, United States
ESTIMATED51% CONFIDENCE6.7 years agoGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: "the Hines-led development team commenced closings... the building is now ready to welcome its first residents."Jean Nouvel's super-slender 53 West 53rd Street tower, built above an expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, finished construction and began welcoming residents.0.64Frank 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.0.63Florida's First Supertall Tops Out on Biscayne Boulevard
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 69 daysWikipedia[1] says construction "began in late 2022 and is expected to top out in 2026"; the developers' August 2026 update narrows that to winter 2026, a season rather than a day.The Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Residences Miami - nine stacked and cantilevered glass cubes holding nearly 100 storeys of condominiums and a 205-room hotel - is expected to reach its full 1,049 feet, making it the tallest building in Florida and the southern United States. Its superstructure passed level 85 and started the ninth and final cube in August 2026; delivery of the finished tower is set for 2028.0.63Powerhouse Parramatta Opens as Western Sydney's First State Museum
SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCEin 45 daysThe NSW[1] Government release says Powerhouse Parramatta "will swing open its doors to the public on Saturday 7 November 2026".The $915 million museum on the bank of the Parramatta River opens with five exhibitions and more than 3,000 objects, and is the largest museum in New South Wales. Most of its exhibitions are free, and all are free for visitors under 16.0.63One Times Square $500M Redevelopment Completes
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE265 days agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the renovation was finished by January 2026."Jamestown's $500 million overhaul of the long-vacant One Times Square, home of the New Year's Eve ball drop, wrapped up with a new glass facade, museum and observation deck.$500M0.63Len 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.$8.3M0.63Tropical Islands Resort Opens Inside the World's Largest Free-Standing Hall
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE21.8 years agoWikipedia's[3] Tropical Islands Resort article states the resort opened on December 19, 2004, after Tanjong plc bought the former CargoLifter hangar.A former CargoLifter airship hangar in Brandenburg, big enough to enclose the Statue of Liberty, reopened as the Tropical Islands indoor resort on December 19, 2004. Its beaches, lagoons and rainforest now draw about a million visitors a year to the world's largest free-standing hall.0.62Prince Albert I Opens the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
Avenue Saint-Martin, 98000 Monaco-Ville, Monaco
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE116.5 years agoThe museum's own institute (oceano.org[2]) and multiple tourism/history sources date its inauguration by Prince Albert I to 29 March 1910.Monaco's Prince Albert I inaugurated the Oceanographic Museum, an institution he founded to house his marine research, after eleven years of construction into a cliff face above the Mediterranean. The museum, later directed by Jacques Cousteau, remains one of the world's foremost centres for oceanography.0.61How Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao Changed Architecture Forever
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE28.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the Guggenheim[3] Museum Bilbao was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain."Frank Gehry's titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened in October 1997, reviving a struggling industrial city and popularizing the aircraft-design software that made its curved form buildable.$100M0.61Shanghai Grand Opera House Opens on the Huangpu River
SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCEin 24 daysPudong's[1] English government news page says the "Shanghai Grand Opera House will open on Oct 17 on the east bank of the Huangpu River", a fixed announced date.The 146,000-square-metre building in Expo Culture Park, designed by ECADI with Snohetta as a spiralling Chinese folding fan, holds the 2,000-seat Harmony Hall, the 1,200-seat Soar Theatre and the 1,000-seat Open Stage, 4,200 seats in all. The opening season runs 47 productions and 82 performances through 20 February 2027.0.61The 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.0.61
