Under siege by Los Angeles wildfires, the J. Paul Getty Museum is emerging as a near-miraculous beacon of disaster preparedness. Behind the scenes, it’s taking a small army to defend.

But in 1997, the Getty Center opened. The end result is a remarkable complex of travertine and white metal-clad pavilions that houses ornate French furniture ... on the museum’s sloping ...

The Getty Villa, separate from the main museum in Brentwood, was designed by Robert E Langdon Jr and Ernest C Wilson Jr, opened in 1974 and has since been renovated. Although it wasn’t in the ...

As wildfires ravaged greater Los Angeles last week, the J. Paul Getty Museum faced encroaching flames on two fronts. Blazes nearly surrounded the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, coming within ...

As videos and images circulated of flames and smoke from an explosive wildfire approaching the Getty Villa museum in Los Angeles, art lovers worried the facility's world class collection of ...

Aerial footage and images showed the fast-growing fire approaching the world-renowned Getty Villa museum, which is closed to the public on Tuesdays. The villa site was quickly closed to non ...

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 ...