One of the most remarkable museums to have opened in Britain in many years, the Spanish Gallery at Bishop Auckland, County Durham, is impressive in a number of ways over and above the fact that it is devoted to that seemingly most unEnglish of subjects: the art of Counter-Reformation Spain.
With its third extension, the Kunsthaus Zurich can legitimately claim to be the largest museum in Switzerland. The competition is fierce in a country where recent initiatives to expand museums have multiplied, such as the extension of the Kunsthaus Basel by Christ & Gantenbein (2016) and more recently the erection of the new Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (MACBA) by the Estudio Barozzi Veiga (2019).