Museum

After two decades under construction, Egypt has officially thrown open the doors to the largest archeological museum in the world, spanning 94 football fields and built to house some 100,000 exhibits through several millennia.

"You can either go to Vegas, or you can go to The Hacienda," is what got this world-record-setting idea off the ground and into the air for a couple of months. Yep, I said months.

The world's first petrol truck, which dates back to 1896, is about to get new life. Or at least a convincing replica of that Daimler truck is being restored so that it can get back to all its 4-hp driving glory.

It has been a long wait, but the extraordinary MAD Architects-designed Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is finally nearing completion in Los Angeles. The futuristic building is now slated to open next year.

MAD Architects has completed its long-anticipated Fenix project. The project involved transforming a historic warehouse into a museum exploring global migration and is crowned by an eye-catching twisting "Tornado" viewing point on its roof.

Recent Saudi projects have been defined by their modernity. However, the upcoming Asaan, Misk Heritage Museum instead looks to the past and adopts a traditional mud brick construction to stay cool in the desert.

Say what you like about Zaha Hadid Architects' evolution in style since its founder passed, but you can't accuse the studio of being boring. Case in point, the Shenzhen Science & Technology Museum, which is defined by its extraordinary futuristic form.

What looks at a glance like a hilly section of landscape is actually a new greenery covered natural history museum by BIG. The energy efficient building is being built from wood and will allow visitors to walk all over its raised form.

Beijing-based architecture firm Aedas has unveiled its design for the Yohoo Museum. Designed to embody the flow of the Yangtze River, the museum will feature an undulating facade that will appear to float above the ground.

Panasonic has bumped up the brightness for a new series of short-throw projectors. Billed as the company's most powerful fixed, short-throw LCD laser projectors to date, one model puts out 7,000 lumens and the other manages 6,200 lumens.

A former Aldi store is getting the starchitect treatment with an ambitious renovation by BIG. It will transform the building into a light-filled museum defined by an eye-catching roof that resembles a colossal piece of paper draped over the building.

How do we separate the movie myths of Tyrannosaurus rex from the actual animal? The Victoria the T-rex exhibition sets the record straight with recent discoveries about what T-rex looked and sounded like, how it sensed the world, and how it hunted.