Los Angeles · Downtown
The Broad
A honeycomb veil over a concrete vault, holding two thousand works, free to enter
Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room, timed, briefly, and worth the queue
Eli and Edythe Broad built a museum for their own collection and opened it in 2015 with free admission as a permanent policy. Diller Scofidio and Renfro wrapped it in a perforated concrete honeycomb they call the veil, with the storage vault visible through windows in the middle of the building.
The collection is postwar and contemporary at blue-chip level: Basquiat, Koons, Sherman, Ruscha, Warhol and a Kusama infinity room with its own queue and a forty-five-second limit.
The detail
Good to know
- Opened
- 2015
- Admission
- Free, timed reservations
- Collection
- About 2 000 works, postwar and contemporary
- Kusama
- Infinity room, separate queue inside
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