
LACMA's David Geffen Galleries Open: Los Angeles Reshapes Its Museum Day
The Peter Zumthor-designed building housing LACMA's permanent collection opened to the public in April 2026, the centerpiece of an $835 million campus transformation.
Developments that change a city trip: public transport strikes and line closures, museum renovations and reopenings, new air and rail routes, tourist tax and entry fee changes, and the conferences or festivals filling every hotel in town. Items carry dates. For readers whose booking is already made.
Transit strikes, museum closures, new flight routes, tourist tax changes and major event dates that make a city pricier or harder to move around in.

The Peter Zumthor-designed building housing LACMA's permanent collection opened to the public in April 2026, the centerpiece of an $835 million campus transformation.

The OMA-designed building next to the original SANAA tower opened March 21, 2026, after nearly two years of closure, welcoming visitors free of charge through March 22.

A Basel–Copenhagen–Malmö sleeper debuts April 15, 2026, and European Sleeper keeps extending — a spring snapshot of the continent's growing night network.

Philadelphia gains Budapest and Prague, New York adds Edinburgh flying, and Miami picks up Milan in American's largest European expansion of the season.

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