The Broad expansion will provide enhanced public access to the museum’s growing collection, extend its standard-setting visitor engagement, and make possible deeper offerings in live programming. The new building, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), the architects of the existing museum, opens a new perspective on the “veil and vault” concept they introduced in 2015, with the building’s iconic white honeycomb “veil” enveloping the “vault,” the sculptural grey core that contains art storage.
The expansion will increase The Broad’s galleries by 70% and allow visitors to see more of the museum’s growing collection. It will also feature two top-floor, open-air courtyards to gather, relax, and enjoy art outdoors; flexible live programming space to encounter boundary-breaking performances, concerts, or multimedia installations, or participate in a family weekend workshop or school program; and new experience of the art storage vault that invites visitors into a room with painting racks, allowing unexpected themes to emerge as various works are pulled out from visit to visit.