The Broad hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on April 9th to kick off the beginning of its $100M expansion project, which will overhaul the famously free L.A. museum over the next 3 years. This expansion is projected to increase gallery space by 70% ahead of the 2028 L.A. Olympics, which incidentally coincides with the museum’s 10th anniversary.
Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro plan to add 50,000 square feet of space to the museum, which will allow more of The Broad’s 2,000-piece collection to be displayed. The plan is to take the building’s current “veil and vault” concept, and “pull the vault out from the veil,” that is, expand the sculptural gray core of the building beyond its white honeycomb shell.
Visitors will have the chance to explore two new outdoor courtyards, a covered plaza connecting to the Metro, and flexible event spaces to host versatile live programming. A unique new component is the publicly accessible art storage gallery, where visitors can move throughout storage racks of works that are not normally seen by the public. And, yes—museum admission will remain free.
“I consider these buildings to be siblings, not clones, with a shared DNA but expressing unique characteristics that enhance the visitor’s experience of the pair,” said Architect Elizabeth Diller at the groundbreaking ceremony. “By turning the vault inside out, the expansion will present new ways for visitors to directly engage with the art in smaller, more focused galleries or through serendipitous encounters with art in storage while preserving the intuitive logic of the original museum.”
“As Los Angeles prepares to welcome the world for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, there is no better time to celebrate the launch of The Broad expansion,” said L.A. Mayor Karen Bass. “…this expansion will allow millions more visitors and Angelenos alike to experience all that The Broad has to offer while further cementing Los Angeles as an international hub for arts and culture, driving more jobs, and economic opportunities.”
The Broad expansion comes on the heels of some of the museum’s highest patronage ever. The museum welcomes over 1 million visitors annually and recently experienced record-breaking single-day attendance this past March, with over 6,800 people showing up.
As mentioned, construction just began on The Broad’s expansion as of the groundbreaking ceremony on April 9, 2025. While there is no specific opening date on the calendar, the project should be completed by the L.A. Olympics, which begin on July 14, 2028. In the meantime, The Broad will remain open during construction—in fact, you might want to plan a day soon to see the new Jeffrey Gibson exhibition opening this May.
With The Broad’s ambitious expansion now underway, we’re looking forward to a new era of accessibility and innovation in the L.A. arts and culture scene.
Third image artwork credits (L to R, front gallery): Amy Sherald, Kingdom, 2022; Elliott Hundley, Changeling, 2020; Patrick Martinez, Migration is Natural, 2021, picture me rollin’, 2016, Psychic Friends (Malcolm X), 2022, and They Tried to Bury Us, They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds (Dinos Christianopoulos), 2022; (back gallery): Mark Bradford, Corner of Desire and Piety, 2008 and Helter Skelter I, 2007.