San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum announced the completion of its major expansion and renovation. The new construction includes the city’s largest continuous museum exhibition gallery, encompassing 8,500 square feet, and a substantial new roof terrace to be used for both exhibitions and events.

Overall, the indoor space of the museum, located next to Civic Center Plaza, will expand by some 17%, while 63,000 square feet of existing galleries and other areas have been redesigned or renewed.

A grand opening weekend of parties and free public admission is planned for May 8- 11, with a gala party for major donors on May 7.

The first major exhibition will be devoted to an immersive installation of works by the Tokyo-based digital art collective teamLab.

The artists’ last expansive show in the Bay Area, presented in 2016 by Pace Gallery in a former Menlo Park car dealership, was popular, attracting 200,000 paying visitors over 10 months, according to the gallery. In 2018, teamLab opened a continuing exhibition in Tokyo that has attracted more than 2.4 million visitors.

The exhibition, “teamLab: Continuity,” will run through Jan. 17, a museum press release said, to deal with expected “heightened visitor demand.”

A press officer also shared working titles for two major exhibitions planned for the future. “Takashi Murakami: We Are All Monsters,” opening in April 2021, will deal with “the ‘monstrosity’ of this moment in time.” “Lost Kingdoms of Ancient China,” which opens in August 2021, will mark the U.S. debut of artifacts from influential cultures destroyed by Emperor Qin Shi Huang, who was entombed with thousands of terracotta warrior statues.

Beyond the main gallery, museum Director Jay Xu said, “every single space” in the newly opened building “will be filled with something new.” The museum will also debut new spaces for displaying contemporary art, re-install and reinterpret the permanent collection across 31 refreshed galleries and show off its new education classrooms and high-tech learning tools. New circulation, lounge and lobby spaces will also be unveiled.

Xu said the museum would be “turned inside-out” with works presented outside and around the building. These will include sculpture by Ai Weiwei, Jas Charanjiva, Jenifer K. Wofford and Tianjin Ren, and a Village Artist Corner with rotating installations from local and international artists, on the corner of Fulton and Larkin Streets.

The museum’s renewal project was funded with private contributions totaling $103 million, of which $38 million went to construction. An additional $65 million will be devoted to programs and to expanding the endowment for annual operations.

The new main gallery is to be called the Akiko Yamazaki & Jerry Yang Pavilion, in recognition of the couple’s lead gift of $25 million, Xu said. Yamazaki is the chairwoman and a longtime member of the museum’s board.

In an exclusive interview with The Chronicle, Xu said gifts for the project came from “a very balanced distribution” of three categories of donor. One was the traditional, “deeply philanthropic community of San Francisco.” But the museum was also able to tap what he called “a growing generation” of donors in the tech industry. “This is an area of new growth, and we are among the very first art museums to develop tangible relationships in Silicon Valley,” he said.

Finally, the campaign relied upon “donors of Asian descent, both Asian Americans and people who have homes here and in Asia.” Xu pointed to the significant relationship between Asia and the Bay Area, and to “a very meaningful overlap” between tech and Asian donors. He said that he has spent 10 years building the relationships that led to such generosity, but that it ultimately came down to excitement about the museum itself.

“The leader must have a compelling vision, and then people will very happily support it. You might say that vision should be stated in three sentences — or in three words — but I can say it in one word only: Connection.

“Connection of the art of the past with the art of the present … of Asian art’s global relevance and the rest of the world … (and) of art to life.

“The content, the theme must be relevant to us today. The art can be ancient but the experience must be contemporary, even as we also will feature 21st century art. ‘Contemporary’ means both things. That’s why we called the campaign ‘A Place for All.’ ”

Asian Art Museum opening events and info

Public opening party: 7-11 p.m. Friday, May 8. $20-$30.

Free admission days: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Monday, May 9-11. TeamLab exhibition is free, but advance reservations are required (available beginning April 3, via website or phone).

TeamLab Reservations: May 12-Jan. 17. $20-$25. Timed ticket required, available beginning at 9 a.m. April 3, via website or phone.

New museum hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Monday, until 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays during spring and summer.

Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., S.F. 415-581-3500. http://www.asianart.org