The Getty Villa Museum is officially back this summer. Following nearly a six-month closure due to the devastating Palisades Fire, the museum has announced it will reopen its doors on Friday, June 27.

The museum's staff also spent days protecting the property and its artifacts from flames and smoke. Photos from the Getty Villa after the fire show what it takes to keep an at-risk estate safe.

From Santa Monica, the Metro bus line No. 134 stops at Pacific Coast Highway and Coastline Drive, opposite the museum's entrance. For more information, visit the official Getty Villa Museum website.

The Getty Villa reopened to the public in 2006 after an eight-year, $275 million renovation and houses the J. Paul Getty Museum's extensive classical antiquities collection of Greek, Roman and ...

LOS ANGELES – Once in the crosshairs of the deadly Palisades Fire, the famed Getty Villa Museum in the tony coastal hills of Los Angeles has a reopening date. The villa has been closed since Jan ...

The Getty Villa reflecting pool, usually bright blue, is black because of ash from the Palisades fire in this photo taken Jan. 22, 2025. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) ...

The villa site was quickly closed to non-emergency staff once the fire was reported around 10 a.m. local time, according to Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust.

The Getty Villa Museum reopened June 27, 2025, nearly six months after it was damaged in the Los Angeles wildfires, in Pacific Palisades. The hills behind the museum are charred from the January ...

The Getty Villa museum in Pacific Palisades has a "state-of-the-art" air handling system to seal off its galleries and archives from wildfire smoke.

The Palisades Fire reached the Getty Villa museum but didn't harm its collection. NPR speaks with Katherine Fleming, president and CEO of the Getty Trust, about how the museum protects its antiques.