When the Palisades fire swept through the Los Angeles area in January, flames came perilously close to the Getty Villa, the art museum founded by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty in 1974. Fortunately, the ...

Five and a half months after it shut its doors in the midst of the Palisades Fire, the Getty Villa —one of the city’s ...

Although the museum’s artwork was unscathed, roughly 1,400 trees on the property burned during the Palisades fire. Visible ...

The Getty Villa has reopened almost six months after the Palisades Fire damaged trees and vegetation on its property.

The Getty Villa opened in 1974 by Billionaire oilman J. Paul Getty, according to the nonprofit Los Angeles Conservancy. The art patron modeled the site off a Roman country house buried by the ...

Visitors walk the grounds at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades on reopening day for the museum since the Palisades fire ...

Update, January 15, 2025: The Getty Villa remains safe, but will be closed indefinitely. “We remain acutely aware of our affected staff, our Getty neighbors, and the whole Los Angeles region ...

In 1974, oil magnate J Paul Getty opened a museum of his holdings in a faux villa in Malibu, based on the remains of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum. Derision from critics and ridicule from ...

The Getty Center and Villa, museums that house some of the most priceless pieces of art in the Los Angeles area, remain stable as wildfires continue, a museum representative said in an update on ...

As wildfires continue engulfing Los Angeles, the latest evacuation warnings Saturday afternoon included the Getty Center − home to one of the city's most prized art collections.. The evacuation ...

The Getty Villa is set to reopen Friday after a months-long closure due to the Palisades Fire on the Los Angeles County coast ...

The Getty Vila is home to more than 44,000 objects dedicated to ancient art, per the Los Angeles Times, including Roman, Greek, and Etruscan antiquities. The Villa will remain closed through ...