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The Getty Villa is an educational center and an art museum located at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. [2] One of two campuses of the J. Paul Getty Museum , the Getty Villa is dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece , Rome , and Etruria .
A visitor walks through the atrium of the Getty Villa in January, 2006 in Los Angeles. The Getty Villa reopened to the public in 2006 after an eight-year, $275 million renovation and houses the J ...
The Getty Villa is part of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which includes the largest endowment of any museum in the world, estimated at more than $8 billion in 2023. It houses the trust's collection of ...
In 1974, J. Paul Getty opened a museum in a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum on his property in Malibu, California. [6] In 1982, the museum became the richest in the world when it inherited US$1.2 billion. [7]
The Getty Villa art museum is threatened by the flames of the wind-driven Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California, Jan. 7, 2025. A fast-moving brushfire in a Los Angeles suburb burned ...
PHOTO: The Topanga Ranch Motel is shown on Jan. 8, 2025, in Malibu, Calif., after the Palisades Fire. (California State Parks) ... Getty Villa remains safe. PHOTO: The Getty Villa art museum is ...
What is the Getty Villa? Billionaire oilman and art patron J. Paul Getty opened the Getty Villa to the public in 1974, according to the nonprofit Los Angeles Conservancy and the museum's website.
Last month, the villa was closed to the public due to the Franklin Fire in Malibu, which scorched over 4,000 acres. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Getty Villa Museum threatened by ...