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 enjoy the garden at the Getty Villa Museum in Los Angeles on April 18, 2011. The Getty Villa exhibits classical ...

The Villa will remain closed at least through Monday. The Getty is no stranger to the perils of fire. In 2017, and again in 2019, the museum’s Brentwood campus closed because of a fire near the ...

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 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 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.

The Getty Villa Museum is set to reopen to the public on June 27 after a roughly four-month closure following the Palisades Fire. Museum officials said when the wildfire broke out on Jan. 7, ...

President and CEO of the Getty Trust said that some “trees and vegetation on site” of the Getty Villa Museum have burned from the wide-spreading Pacific Palisades fire Tuesday.

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. (KABC) -- As the raging Palisades Fire surrounded the 55-acre Getty Villa Museum in the hills of Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7, everyone inside was ordered to evacuate.

The Getty Villa will remain closed until further notice due to the Palisades Fire, the museum announced today. The Getty Center in Brentwood will likely remain closed until Monday, January 20.

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 ...