Image: The museum will be located in Philadelphia The American Revolution Center (ARC) has secured US$10m (EUR8.2m, £6.5m) from the Oneida Indian Nation towards Philadelphia's new Museum of the American Revolution. It comes a month after the non-profit organisation unveiled architectural designs for the new museum, which have been drawn up by New York-based Robert AM Stern Architects. Located near the Independence Hall and Liberty Bell, the 100,000sq ft (9,290sq

Image: The visitor centre will open in autumn 2013 English Heritage has announced that contractor Vinci Construction UK has now moved on site to start work on a £27m transformation of the visitor facilities at Stonehenge, UK. A new visitor centre designed by Denton Corker Marshall is to be built at Airman's Corner, which is 1.5 miles (2.4km) west of the prehistoric landmark and World Heritage Site. Haley Sharpe Design

Image: Castle Island – one of the proposed zones A groundbreaking event is to take place on 21 July in order to mark the start of construction work at Adventure World Warsaw - a new theme park at Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland. The development of the 240-hectare (593-acre) attraction is intended to provide Poland with a comparable experience to other European theme parks, such as Europa-Park in Rust, Germany. Companies involved

Image: The new £6.9m Novium museum is now open Author Kate Mosse has helped celebrate the official opening of The Novium - a new £6.9m museum developed around the remains of a Roman bath house in Chichester, West Sussex. An official launch event was held on 4 July, before the heritage attraction was unveiled to the public on 8 July. The building has been designed by Keith Williams Architects. The

Image: The NFM includes FootballPlus experiences The National Football Museum (NFM) - an attraction exploring Britain's cultural heritage through football - has opened at its new location within Manchester's iconic Urbis building. Formerly located at Preston's Deepdale stadium, the new visitor destination in the centre of Manchester has taken two years to develop and aims to provide a "unique experience". Mather and Co and Patton Heritage worked on the creation

Image: The new museum complex in central Warsaw The new Museum of the History of Polish Jews (MHPJ) - currently being built in the heart of Warsaw and due to open in the second half of 2013 - has secured two major donations. A US$7m (EUR5.7m, £4.5m) grant has been received from the US-based Taube and Koret Foundations, which will go towards the creation of the museum's Core Exhibition. Meanwhile,

Image: Dubai is bidding to host the 2020 World Expo HOK has been appointed to lead the design team responsible for drawing up a masterplan for the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) bid to host the 2020 World Expo in Dubai. Populous, Arup and Thinkwell will work along with the architecture and design consulting firm in preparing a masterplan for the proposed Expo site at Dubai Trade Centre-Jebel Ali. Thinkwell has

Image: Reiach and Hall led the design of the centre Scottish culture secretary Fiona Hyslop has helped mark the start of construction work on a new multi-million pound visitor centre designed to celebrate the Battle of Bannockburn. Mansell Construction Services has been appointed to deliver the new attraction near Stirling, which has been designed by a team led by Edinburgh-based architects Reiach and Hall. Sinclair Knight Merz; Turner and Townsend;

A new £18.5m visitor centre has opened today (3 July) at the Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland's sole UNESCO World Heritage Site located on the County Antrim coast. The building - designed by Dublin, Ireland-based heneghan.peng - is inspired by the site's 40,000 hexagonal basalt stones and the legends of giants Finn McCool and Benandonner. Event Communications has worked on the interpretative design of the centre, which includes interactive experiences

Image: The gardens are Singapore's latest attraction Gardens by the Bay has officially opened today (29 June) to become Singapore's newest tourist attraction, while also forming a key part of the city's wider City in a Garden vision. UK-based Wilkinson Eyre Architects has worked with Grant Associates, Atelier One, Land Design Studio and Atelier Ten on the 101-hectare (249-acre) first phase of the project. The gardens' main features include the

Image: Mayor Boris Johnson launched the new service Emirates Air Line, the new 1.1km (0.7-mile) cable car service linking Greenwich with the Royal Docks in London, has embarked on its first passenger flight today (28 June). Mayor Boris Johnson officially launched the new service spanning the river Thames, which offers panoramic views overlooking the capital and has taken nearly a year to construct. A total of 34 cabins will cater

Image: An extension has been added to the building Kunsthalle Zürich, one of Switzerland's leading contemporary art attractions, has opened following a major transformation of its home at the city's Löwenbräukunst. A team formed of Swiss architectural practices Gigon / Guyer and Atelier ww was chosen to lead the redesign of the Löwenbräu complex in 2002. Work started in late 2010. The Löwenbräukunst is located on the former Löwenbräu brewery

Image: Ypres' new-look In Flanders Field Museum In Flanders Field Museum, the heritage attraction examining the events of World War One (WWI), has reopened its doors in Ypres, Belgium, following an extensive renovation and expansion. The 5,000sq m (53,819sq ft) museum is housed in the town's iconic Cloth Hall and its redesign has been led by Brussels-based design practice noAarchitecten. A new WWI research centre has been created at In

Image: Next year is the 70th birthday of the vessel Musaic Design Group has been appointed to develop a new museum experience masterplan for USS Yorktown - the floating attraction located at Patriots Point, South Carolina, US. The Patriots Point Development Authority said the scheme, which will cost around US$2m (EUR1.6m, £1.3m) over the next three to four years, would revitalise the visitor experience. USS Yorktown was commissioned in 1943

Image: The National Postal Museum in Washington DC Work has now begun on the construction of the new William H Gross Stamp Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution's National Postal Museum (NPM) in Washington DC, US. The project has been made possible as the result of an US$8m (EUR6.4m, £5.1m) donation from Pacific Investment Management Company co-founder William H Gross. Clark Construction has been chosen to build the new 12,000sq ft

Image: Mather and Co worked on the new museum Museo Volvo Ocean Race, a visitor attraction allowing visitors to experience the challenges faced by elite sailors competing in the Volvo Ocean Race, has opened in Alicante, Spain. The new museum is located at the headquarters of the Volvo Ocean Race headquarters and has been designed by Cheshire, UK-based consultancy, Mather and Co. Visitors of all ages will have the opportunity

Image: The museum's proposed new extension Corning Museum of Glass (CMG) started work on its new US$64m (EUR50.8m, £40.9m) extension project, which will add a new North Wing at the attraction in New York state, US. The 100,000sq ft (9,290sq m) addition - designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners - is to be completed in 2014 and aims to "dramatically enhance" the museum's visitor experience. The scheme will create one

Image: The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 The Serpentine Gallery in London has unveiled the Herzog and de Meuron/Ai Weiwei-designed Pavilion - the 12th commission in the contemporary art attraction's annual series. This year's Pavilion - part of the London 2012 Festival - enables visitors to go beneath the Serpentine lawn to explore the "hidden history" of the gallery's previous 11 commissions. A total of 11 columns represent previous structures, while

Image: The museum building on Oslo's waterfront Astrup Fearnley Museet, a new NOK650m (US$106m, EUR86m, £69m) contemporary art attraction, is scheduled to open its doors in Oslo, Norway, on 29 September. The museum will be situated on the city's waterfront and will be housed in a new 7,000sq m (75,347sq ft) building designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano. Design features of the building include a double-arched glass roof filtering daylight

Image: The hall forms part of HMNS' expansion plans A new US$85m (EUR68m, £55m) Hall of Palaeontology featuring more than 30 dinosaurs opens to the public at Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) in Texas, US, tomorrow (2 June). The 30,000sq ft (2,787sq m) facility forms part of a wider expansion – the Dan L Duncan Family Wing – designed by Gensler and boasts a total of 60 major mounts,

Image: The museum will be located at LACMA West The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has chosen architects Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali to design the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in California, US. Los Angeles-based Pali is the design principal and co-founder of Studio Pali Fekete, which worked on the renovation and expansion of the Getty Villa museum among others. Meanwhile, Piano founded the Renzo Piano

Image: The £6.9m Novium museum will open in July The Novium, a new £6.9m museum developed around the remains of a Roman bath house in the centre of Chichester, West Sussex, is to open its doors to the public on 8 July. Keith Williams Architects are behind the design of the new attraction, which has been built by Vinci Construction UK and project managed by Robinson Low Francis. Work on

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced additional investment totalling £13.6m for 51 skills projects through its Skills for the Future and Training Bursaries programmes. Nearly 790 new placements are to be delivered as a result of the funding boost, representing 700 years' worth of paid training opportunities for those looking to enter the heritage sector. Among the projects set to benefit from the latest investment are the digitising of

Image: The Natural History Museum in Kensington The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is to place culture and the creative industries at the heart of all future development within the borough. The local authority is rolling out its Cultural Placemaking initiative as it aims to become the first council in the UK to integrate culture into the borough's economic development through planning. Developed in partnership with consultancies Futurecity and

Image: CSC will be the new home of Endeavour California Science Center (CSC) has said it is now close to the halfway point in its fundraising for a planned new Air and Space Center, following the receipt of a "transformational gift". The Mr and Mrs Samuel Oschin Family Foundation has provided the donation, which has taken the US attraction closer to its EndeavourLA campaign target of US$200m (EUR157m, £127m). As

Image: The new visitor centre is to open this summer UK energy supplier EDF Energy has submitted a planning application for the creation of a temporary new visitor centre at Sizewell B nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast. Suffolk Coastal District Council will be responsible for deciding the fate of the Parsons Brinckerhoff -designed project, with the Sizewell B visitor centre due to open towards the end of the

Image: The new Verbolten coaster opens tomorrow Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia, US, is to unveil one of its largest-ever attractions tomorrow (18 May) with the launch of the new indoor/outdoor multi-launch rollercoaster, Verbolten. The immersive ride experience was first announced in September 2010 and is described as the "capstone attraction" of the two-year refurbishment of the park's Oktoberfest village. Germany-based Zierer Karussell- und Spezialmaschinenbau manufactured Verbolten, which features two