Saint John can expect a new provincial museum in the near future after the provincial government announced  $50 million in funding for the construction of the attraction on Monday. “The New Brunswick Museum promotes culture and our important tourism industry,” said Premier Brian Gallant.

In 2016, Lord began work with the New Brunswick Museum on a business plan. 

More than 70 students in Grades 4 to 6 visited the Canadian Museum for Human Rights to learn more about the history of residential schools. Later in the year, they will start examining the calls to action and rewrite them in more child-friendly language. Their goals include figuring out what actions they can take to be part of Reconciliation.

Le Musée Bytown d'Ottawa soufflera ses 100 bougies le 25 octobre prochain. Retour sur la longue histoire d'un petit établissement.
The Ottawa Bytown Museum will be celebrating its 100th birthday on October 25th. A look back on the long history of a small establishment.

After a nearly two-year renovation, the New York Public Library debuted a host of renovated spaces inside the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The Center, located in Harlem on Malcolm X Boulevard, is comprised of three interconnected buildings, all of which saw renovations as part of the $22.3 million revamp.

The Guggenheim Bilbao opened its doors 20 years ago, turning a struggling industrial town into a cultural metropolis. The building designed by Frank Gehry is now the landmark of the city.

Read Deutsche Welle's coverage of this momentous anniversary, see Architecture Daily's photos of the extraordinary projection mapping light show celebrating the occasion, and learn more about the "Bilbao Effect" on the Guardian.

The Biennial will showcase more than 100 works of art that have been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada’s departments of Contemporary Art, Indigenous Art and the Canadian Photography Institute in the last three years. Represented are more than 50 Canadian, Indigenous and, for the first time, international artists.

Toronto's EDIT: The Expo for Design, Innovation & Technology concluded after 10 exciting days of exhibits, programming, and enthusiasic crowds. In Why This Toronto Museum Created a New Design Festival, BizBash talks to Toronto Design Exchange president and C.E.O. Shauna Levy about how the event came to be. To see some of the "brilliant, hopeful" projects, read CBC's 5 design innovations that just might change the world, which range from fashion and art to rethinking models of housing and waste management. 

Holly Block, Executive Director of The Bronx Museum of the Arts passed away Friday October 6th, at her home in Manhattan due to Breast Cancer.

We had the pleasure of working with Holly on audience development in anticipation of the expansion of the Museum.

Canada's National Holocaust Monument, which was inaugurated in September, continues to garner acclaim:

• ArchDaily describes the symbolism of the Monument's singular architecture (October 3)
• The Toronto Star examines Daniel Libeskind's experiential design (October 3)
• Interior Design Media documents the stunning space in a photo series (October 10)

Construction began earlier this month on a 250-metre skating trail below the western part of Toronto's Gardiner expressway. It’s part of The Bentway project, an attempt to transform the vacant area under the highway into a vibrant gathering place for recreation and artistic engagement.

The Davis Museum at Wellesley College took home the prize for Valletta 2018 Soft Power Best Cultural Activation at this year's Leading Culture Destination Awards. Lisa Fischman, the Museum's director was interviewed on what inspired the winning activation, ART-LESS: the Davis without immigrants.

When attempting to rank the world's leading museums by reputation, a recent project conducted by European researches revealed that organisations have a lot learn from museums when it comes to cultivating a positive public image. 

The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on the National Mall in Washington, DC—the Smithsonian Institution’s museums of Asian art—are reopening their doors on 14 October after a $13.6m makeover lasting nearly two years. Director Julian Raby says that the "mental renovation" was as important as the physical one. 

Jasper Visser ponders what future museums might look like through the lens of Artificial Intelligence and the rise of automation. What will these institutions look like, and what can we learn from them for our human museums? How will the human experience be impacted in a museum space accomodating robots?

Museums are leading the charge when it comes to bolstering up in the face of extreme weather — after all, financially speaking, they might have the most to lose. Along the Eastern Seaboard, from Miami to Manhattan, curators are going to extremes to safeguard their art -- and in doing so, they’re testing out ideas and processes that might later be adopted by everyone who lives on the coast.

Earlier this month, prototypes went on display and winners were announced for the the 2017 Solar Decathlon, a biennial competition and expo organized by the U.S. Department of Energy. Aiming to prepare students for careers in renewable energy, the competition invites multidisciplinary, international teams to design and build solar-powered homes that range between 600 and 1,000 square feet.

It is the kind of subtle thinking about the details of everyday living that was at the core of Brown’s ground-breaking designs for high-density, low-rise social housing in Camden in the 1960s and 70s, for which he has just been awarded the RIBA royal gold medal, the UK’s highest honour for architecture.

Cecilia Conrad, managing director of the MacArthur Fellows Program states that "from transforming conditions for low-wage workers to identifying internet security vulnerabilities, from celebrating the African American string band tradition to designing resilient urban habitats, these new MacArthur Fellows bring their exceptional creativity to diverse people, places, and social challenges. Their work gives us reason for optimism and inspires us all."

Artist Ai Weiwei has taken on the worldwide refugee crisis in a gargantuan undertaking of new public artworks in New York, running from Harlem to Flushing and united under the title “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors.”

What's perceived to be the number one barrier to all forms of cultural participation? How do audiences feel about wearable technology within cultural experiences? The answers to these questions and more in Culture Track ’17, an American survey in which more than 4,000 respondents weighed in on cultural questions.