A Nerd Girl’s Adventure to the Broad Museum

Hey y’all! Another entry in A Nerd Girl’s Adventure for your pleasure! Last time the adventure was visiting perhaps what has become my favorite bookstore in the city of Los Angeles, the one and only The Last Bookstore. This time around I gathered my museum going boo and we visited The Broad Contemporary Art Museum. Located in downtown L.A. on Grand Avenue, it fits right in with such neighboring places of interest like the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The Broad is a much-welcomed building that houses a diverse and quite iconic collection of art, and the building itself serves as a functional piece of art as well; it features a “vault” to store the artwork not being showcased. Photo by Iwan Baan [divider type=”space_thin”] The beauty of the design is that the vault is still partially accessible, it appears to hover in the middle of the building so you can see a glimpse of it walking up a stairway. The second key component to the building’s innovative design is “the veil” which showcases the art on display and is the portion of the building that most of the public see. The building was designed by a collaboration by two architecture firm DS + R (Diller Scofido + Renfro) and Gensler. This unique structure is made up of several materials including concrete, fiberglass, and Venetian plaster. Upon walking up to the building crossing the street I couldn’t help but stare and let my curiosity get the better of me as I compared the “the vei…