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April 27, 2026

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new central building is a ‘machine of discovery'

  • LACMA has completed renovations two decades in the making with a new home for its permanent collection that opens to the public May 4.
    • By ANDREW DALTON
    AP Entertainment Writer

    AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes [enlarge]
    The $720 million structure designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is intended to allow visitors to wander into things they didn’t necessarily intend to see.

    LOS ANGELES — It looks like a freeway on-ramp as it hovers over Wilshire Boulevard, but people behind the new building anchoring the Los Angeles County Museum of Art define it with aquatic imagery.


     
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