The Getty Villa, the museum built by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty and home to thousands of priceless antiquities, activated its emergency operations center in response to the fast-moving Palisades ...

The collection was expanded, after J. Paul Getty's death in 1976, to include examples of early Italian and Dutch works, French impressionists and the examples of the Spanish and German schools.

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.