Designing the new museum : building a destination

Museums have emerged as major cultural attractions for millions of travelers and every major city is adding to an existing museum or planning to build a new one to compete as world cultural centre. Not only the collection is interesting, but also the building itself, mostly designed by a famous architect and as building rather conspicuous. Presentation in detail of a selection of museums that have been built in the past five years or planned for completion in Japan, the United States, Portugal, The Netherlands and other European countries.