Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Peter Zumthor’s David Geffen Galleries change the way LACMA unfolds. Opened on April 19, 2026, the Pritzker Prize–winning architect’s new building added roughly 110,000 square feet of gallery space, giving the museum’s permanent collection a radically different frame.

That matters at a museum of this scale. LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with about 155,000 objects spanning some 6,000 years of art history. The new galleries transform how that encyclopedic collection is presented across the campus, so the visit feels less like ticking off departments and more like moving through cultures, periods and materials in fresh relation to one another.

Start at Chris Burden’s Urban Light on Wilshire Boulevard: 202 restored vintage cast-iron streetlamps, now one of the city’s most photographed introductions to art. Inside, seek out Metropolis II, Burden’s kinetic city of speeding miniature cars and trains, then let the breadth open out from there — including a Costume & Textiles collection of more than 35,000 objects.