EDMONTON, CANADA — The $375.5-million museum is expected to open in late 2017. “Now, we can get to work inside, outfitting the museum’s exhibits,” Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Brian Mason said Tuesday. 

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — In less than an hour, museum supporters snapped up all ­28,500 tickets to the opening weekend of the National Museum of African American History and Culture after they went on sale Saturday morning. By Sunday afternoon, the only passes available to the Smithsonian museum were for weekdays in October.

LONDON, UK — In an attempt to help raise the final £1 million needed to cover construction costs of their new Kensington High Street home, the Design Museum in London have launched a fundraising campaign, Adopt an Object.

ATHENS, GREECE — Despite troubled times, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center aims to provide Athens with a rejuvenated hub for art and culture.

ITALY — Italy’s state museums and archaeological sites are to donate their income, including all ticket sales, this Sunday (28 August) to the central regions recovering from a 6.2-magnitude earthquake yesterday (24 August).

FLORENCE, ITALY — The new director of the Uffizi Gallery, Eike Schmidt, continues his mission to reform and revitalize Italy's most popular museum.

INTERNATIONAL — In the never-ending quest to push their brands, companies are now turning towards branded museums as an innovative marketing strategy.

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — Big, fun, and photo-friendly exhibitions are on the rise in DC. But what does this mean for traditional exhibitions? Is it now a matter of going big or going home?

INTERNATIONAL — In a world where attention is increasingly focused on digital devices, where does architecture fit in, and how can a deeper appreciation for it be instilled in twnety-first century society?

NINGBO, CHINA — Completed in 2008, the Ningbo History Museum is a 30,000-square-metre building located in the city of Ningbo in Zhejiang province, China. The three-storey museum's distinctive facade is largely composed of debris collected from the surrounding area, where traditional Chinese towns and villages were demolished to make way for new developments.

CHICAGO, USA — The Art Institute of Chicago has a massive Architecture and Design Collection, and it's up to Zoë Ryan to showcase it all — much of it is yet unseen by the public.

By now, the digital art world is well aware of the acronym DiMoDA. It stands for Digital Museum of Digital Art, and it’s exactly what it sounds like.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — A multi-disciplinary team at the University of Melbourne have used CT scans in combination with with forensic science, scultpure, and 3D printing to recreate the face of an Egyptian woman who died more than 2000 years ago.

ATLANTA, USA — 3D printing has been used to build replicas of historical artefacts based on photographs and scans. Now, in honour of the 2016 Olympic Games, a team from 3D printing company Stratasys, 3DPTree in Atlanta and the Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta have gone one step further -- recreating a statue that was destroyed over 1,500 years ago.

USA — As usual, there were a ton of artists and musicians at the political conventions this year. And that raises some questions. How much should artists get involved in politics? How can artists best promote social change?

NEW YORK, USA — The opening of the Clara Francis Gallery on Wednesday in a renovated Harlem storefront was an exciting moment for Haile King Rubie. It was the first solo show for the 26-year-old painter, whose expressive works are all the more remarkable because he was born with Down syndrome. It also was another small step in the development of Harlem as an art gallery district.

ITALY — Starting in September, the Italian government is giving every 18-year-old a "cultural bonus" of 500 euros to spend at the theatres, museums, historic sights, and more. 

NEW YORK, USA — New York City has over 1,000 monuments across the five boroughs, and the new NYC Public Art Map and Guide plots them on an interactive map. The digital interface, recently launched by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, is searchable by zip code and address, and includes both permanent and temporary installations.

USA — Repurposed vacant buildings. The world’s largest indoor vertical farm. A dining court for a food desert. Eilene Zimmerman reports for The New York Times that these projects are among the faces of innovation in U.S. cities.