Explore the new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA | Christie’s

Twenty years ago, Michael Govan was appointed director and CEO of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Shortly afterwards, he made a phone call that would transform the institution for good. It was to the Swiss architect, Peter Zumthor, whose magnificent new building showing LACMA’s permanent collection opens to the public on 4 May 2026.Still at LACMA today, Govan says that his aim has been to ‘create an art museum for the 21st century’.Known as the David Geffen Galleries, the new building boasts 110,000 square feet of gallery space, and cost $724 million to construct. It replaces LACMA’S three original buildings, designed by local architect William Pereira for the museum’s opening in 1965, and a fourth building added to the complex by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates two decades later.

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