The Peter Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries have opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, US.

Spanning LA's Wilshire Boulevard, the elevated exhibition space houses LACMA's permanent collection, allowing the museum to present art from all cultures and eras on a single level without hierarchies or prescribed visitor pathways.

“This building is not just about the flow of people. It's actually about the flow of objects, ever-changing because history is ever-changing,” said LACMA CEO Michael Govan.

The building is designed to hold approximately 2,500 to 3,000 objects from the museum’s global collection at one time, filling 110,000 square feet of gallery space. Rather than displaying artworks according to medium or period, the inaugural installation will use the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea as its organising framework.

The opening concludes a two decade-long campus transformation to increase gallery space at LACMA and enhance the visitor experience.

The launch of the galleries is being celebrated with a range of events including a block party and a procession of portable artworks.