Industrial-style technology museum set to be built in Bengaluru

Plans have been announced for a technology and innovation museum in Bengaluru, India, designed by a consortium of architects led by Dublin-based Heneghan Peng Architects.

Designed by Heneghan Peng Architects in collaboration with London-based DROO and local studio Cadence Architects, the Museum of Innovation, Startup & Technology will house an innovation hub and exhibition hall within an overhauled factory at the city’s historic NGEF campus.

Renders of the proposal reveal the factory’s spacious, steel-framed volume complete with sawtooth roofs and large operable windows that will overlook a surrounding 105-acre forest.

According to the team, once complete, the Museum of Innovation, Startup & Technology, or MIST, will be the country’s first museum dedicated exclusively to “modern India’s journey in innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship”.

“MIST is the public space Bengaluru has always needed – a place where the city can gather, connect, and create,” Cadence Architects said.

“By transforming industrial heritage into a vibrant civic landscape, MIST fosters chance encounters, shared experiences, and collective exchange that fuel innovation, laying the foundation for Bengaluru’s technological future.”

The building will encompass two institutions: the museum, which will contain exhibition space, and a government-led innovation hub dubbed the Innoverse. Its programmes will be split between two wings, which were conceptualised by the team as a “reciprocal structure” designed to facilitate cross-pollination.

“Rather than separating exhibition from production, the design creates an active exchange between the two institutions,” the team said.

“This reciprocal structure transforms the two wings into an evolving ecosystem: MIST becomes a living archive of ongoing innovation, while Innoverse becomes a responsive workshop shaped by public curiosity and critique,” it added.

Renders of the spaces reveal a lofty exhibition hall and a split-level communal area fitted out with large concrete columns and raised wooden platforms.

The Museum of Innovation, Startup & Technology forms part of a larger redevelopment of the existing NGEF campus into a cultural hub and “tree park”, which is being developed by the local Karnataka Government.

Previous civic projects by Heneghan Peng Architects include the Grand Egyptian Museum, which reached completion in Giza last year, more than three decades after plans were announced.

Elsewhere, the sinuous Shenzhen Natural History Museum in China was recently completed by architecture studios 3XN, B+H Architects and Zhubo Design to “emulate a piece of landscape”.

The renders are courtesy of DROO. 

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