Underground museum

Chichu means “under the earth” in Japanese; a particularly apt name for this unusual gallery which sits almost entirely underground.

Nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2017.

This is a museum showing the history and culture of medieval Turkish underground tunnel system. Visitors need to shuttle through the intricate ventilation pipes to find the entrance of the underground museum, and then dress up as people living underground in the Middle Ages in the form of cosplay for immersive experience.

Architect Rasem Kamal has proposed a network of burrow-like spaces that would sprawl out beneath a UNESCO-protected valley in the Jordan desert

BIG has completed the Danish National Maritime Museum, an underground museum that loops around an old dry dock in Helsingør, Denmark.

Results for ‘Underearth’ - cultural architecture competition

The subject of this diploma project concerns the creation of a museum of underwater antiquities on Chios island, in Greece , that will include both exhibition and research areas, as well as a small diving center.greekarchitects.gr

Cavernous holes in the courtyard of three museum buildings in Graz, Austria, lead underground into a new, shared entrance by Spanish architects Nieto Sobejano and local firm eep architekten (photographs by Roland Halbe).

The National September 11 Memorial Museum was conceived as the global focal point for presenting and preserving the history and memories of the events of 9/11, documenting the impact of the attacks and exploring their enduring significance. The Museum is located beneath the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center. Descending nearly 70 […]