This is a museum, one of those essentials in 2017
THE NATIONAL 'PORFINES'
Yes, you always have to take with tweezers any promise that includes opening a museum in Spain. At least outside of election dates. What does seem is that at the end of spring, Jaén will have its long-awaited Iberian Art Museum , with a modern and iconic building and the expectations of almost two decades as an incentive. Another of the expected premieres this year is that of the media Lanzarote underwater art museum , the Atlantic Museum , which will finish its installation this summer at the end of the installation of works by the artists Jason deCaires . Of course, there are other great projects in the pipeline, such as the Museum of Royal Collections of Madrid or the Santander Botin Center . It's time to take out the crystal ball.
Lanzarote's moving underwater museum
… AND THE FAR AWAY
But this evil is not unique to Spain. In Abu Dhabi they also know what it's like to wait and wait until they can finally throw a housewarming party. But finally his louvre , that kind of neo-mosque designed by Nouvel, is ready to unfold and start creating the Saadiyat Cultural District that promises to be the destination for art lovers of the future. An opening, that of the branch of the Gallic icon, which is complemented by that of the EtihadMuseum , a space designed with the same pretensions and overdose as everything that is done in these coordinates and that will show the history of the Emirates in a spectacular way.
Louvre in Abu Dhabi, the future and long-awaited opening
CHINA FIREPROOF
The competition among Chinese cities to be the new Shanghai becomes wacky and megalomania year after year. In this 2017 it is up to two of those new giants: Shenzhen and Qingdao . The first opens its Design Center , a museum dedicated to the design of the last century supported by the Victoria & Albert Museum which promises to be the new jewel in the crown of its spectacular Sea World Culture and Arts urban project. The second launches a new naval museum, with a neoclassical aesthetic , with which it intends to position itself as a serious coastal capital among so many competitors.
YVES SAINT LAURENT'S DOUBLE
The name that shines on the international museum scene in 2017 will not be a painter or a patron. He is Yves Saint Laurent's turn , a designer so iconic and so linked to his environment that the fact of having a museum in his two cities seemed inert. Of course, the great headquarters will be in Marrakech, with a contemporary red brick building that promises to mark the architectural future of the city next to its already iconic Majorelle Garden . On his part, in Paris, the Fondation Pierre Bergé–Yves Saint Laurent has been renovated to recover the old atelier of the fashion genius and set up exhibition spaces where his models can be exhibited.
MORE MYTHOMANIA
The good of Saint Laurent will not be the only legend that deserves a museum. At least that's what Motorworld (Cologne) thinks, where from this year they will host the private collection of Michael Schumacher cars and trophies. Something similar happens with the reggae singer Bunny Wailer and his ego-altar that will open, of course, in Kingston. For their part, **the Marciano brothers (co-founders of Guess)** will open a headquarters in Los Angeles for their art collection located in an indescribable old Masonic temple. In this case, their designs will not be the protagonists, although gossips say that "time to time..."
** YOU TO LONDON, ME TO MIAMI (OR VICE VERSA) **
Since, at the end of 2012, we began with this annual museum preview, both cities are indisputable. And it is that, in recent years, they do nothing but star in the news in relation to their cultural and exhibitionist potential. The English megacity for having proposed to put aside the little icons and bet on the thriving culture. Hence, 2017 is the ideal year to get to know its recently opened design museum or the expansion of the TATE, in this case making a 2x1 with the exhibition of the year in the metropolis: the David Hockney monograph. For its part, Miami consolidates its conversion into the world capital of contemporary art with the opening of the new headquarters of the Institute of Contemporary Art.
NEW ‘GUGGENHEIM’ EFFECTS
The list of cities that join the Guggenheim effect (you know, the opening of a museum as the axis of the renewal of the city) this year grows. Guatemala City takes a step forward with the very modern MUMA o Museo Maya de América, the first institution of its kind in the Central American country that promises to change everything and consolidate its capital on the tourist map. In Jakarta, the MACAN (Museum of modern and contemporary art of Nusantara) leads the facelift of this city, which is betting on national creativity to get out of international tourist ignominy. For its part, Moscow consolidates Gorky Park as its great cultural lung thanks to the opening of the new house of the Polytechnic Museum, a Martian building by the always lavish architect Massimiliano Fuksas.
Mayan Museum of America
THE PERFECT COMPLEMENT
Two openings this year will accompany two cities that are celebrating. On the one hand, the Aarhus ARoS is expanded with a new underground gallery and an installation by James Turrell to accompany the city in its European cultural capital from the arts. In **Edmonton, Canada**, they have decided that the best way to celebrate the country's 150th birthday is with a new home for the Royal Alberta Museum and evolve it from a bland ethnographic museum into a round center of regional pride, science and art.
Royal Alberta Museum
"WHAT COMES, COMES"
And there are even more novelties that can put the finishing touch to a juicy getaway. The first is the opening of a new museum dedicated to Frida Kahlo in Playa del Carmen, Mexico . A project linked to the sophistication of this municipality that seeks to house works by private collectors and the Bank of Mexico , the institution with the most paintings by the brilliant painter and poet. Another surprise (more because of its form than its content) is the Washington Museum of the Bible, a center that seeks to bring the great holy book closer to both believers and the curious, both from a fervent and historical point of view.
The curious opening of the year is the reuse of **Auckland Castle (Durham, United Kingdom)** as the headquarters of the Jonathan Ruffer Gallery, a millionaire and passionate collector of the Spanish Golden Age. An initiative that also has the cooperation of the Prado Museum. Finally, Germany dominates the novelties with the musealization of street art with the conversion of the Urban Nation headquarters in the Schöneberg neighborhood into a gallery. In nearby Potsdam, the Barberini museum promises to put the icing on the cake of a city full of art and cinema with a permanent and temporary exhibitions on a par with the largest in Europe.
Urban Nation
THE YEAR OF DUTCH DESIGN
In this fantastic annual theming to which the Netherlands has accustomed us, this 2017 the eyes are set on the mythical Mondrian and the movement that gave birth to him: DeStijl. And it is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the publication in which this artist became known, which is why the ** Gemeentemuseum in The Hague ** has scheduled one of the largest Mondrian retrospectives ever held. For his part, the always essential ** Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo) ** will dedicate an exhibition to his contemporary Bart van der Leck Meanwhile in Eindhoven Activities will focus on the impact of this current on current design.
EYES ON THE BALTIC
As much as the world has been scandalized by Helsinki's final refusal to host a new Guggenheim for economic-nationalist reasons, the Nordic countries continue to bet on museums and art. In the Finnish city of Tampere, a museum dedicated to the children's universe of Moomin will open, while in Stockholm it will try to perpetuate the fashion of the Vikings with a new museum. The finishing touch to this tour is in the Swedish Älhmut , headquarters of the Ikea museum opened a few months ago.
Ikea Museum
EXHIBITIONS THAT DESERVE A GETAWAY
And, of course, the art exhibitions in the museums of Spain will continue to justify packing your bags in 2017. In Madrid, the treasures of the Hispanic Society in the Prado Museum and the relationship between Picasso and Lautrec in the Thyssen will deserve a visit. gap in schedules. For its part, the introduction to abstract expressionism proposed by the Guggenheim in Bilbao will be the perfect complement to a weekend in the Basque city. Without forgetting the ever more thriving exhibition offer of the ** Museo Picasso de Málaga **, which promises to surprise with an exhibition on Bacon, Freud and the London School . And finally, Seville and your year Murillo proposes a review of the work of a genius mythologized by classical retinas and forgotten by the avant-garde.
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