Possibly one of the best ways to view art for free anywhere in the world, The Broad in Los Angeles is named after collection owners, philanthropists, and financiers of the building, Eli and Edythe Broad. Their collection is rumoured to surpass $2billion in value, and over 2,000 pieces of art lie within, from artists such as Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol and Yayoi Kusama, all for free admission to the general public.

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The building itself was designed by firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, using a concept they describe as “the veil and the vault”, an attempt to combine the two purposes of the building in harmony; both a public exhibition space as well as a home and storage to countless master works, a vast archival vault which would normally be kept far away from public eyes is placed directly in the heart of the structure, hovering midway in the building and wrapped by public exhibition spaces. The “veil”, as the architects describe it, is the skin of the building - the meticulous rounded honeycomb structure, which casts a diffuse light into the gallery spaces which occupy two floors of the museum.