The Getty Villa Museum will reopen to the public on Friday following a months-long closure due to the Palisades Fire. The Villa was evacuated and closed the morning of Jan. 7 as flames from the Pal… ...

That disaster, since ominously named the Getty Fire, broke out at Getty Center Drive and raced up the hills above the museum’s parking structure and its adjacent sculpture garden.

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 ...

The Getty Villa is part of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which includes the largest endowment of any museum in the world, estimated at more than $8 billion in 2023. It houses the trust's collection of ...

Getty Villa Museum prepares to reopen for first time since Palisades Fire 02:02. At the Getty Villa Museum in the Pacific Palisades, crews have been preparing for its reopening months after 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.

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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.