When the Getty collection was relocated in 1997 to the hills above Brentwood, it became the new home of the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Malibu villa closed for renovations.

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 ...

RESEARCH QUESTION: After a nine-year, $275 million restoration, Malibu's Getty Villa (not to be confused with its sprawling sister museum, the Getty Center in Los Angeles) has finally reopened to ...

The Getty Villa had initially reopened with limited hours late last month. Visitors enjoy the garden at the Getty Villa Museum in Malibu on April 18, 2011. (Credit: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images) ...

The Getty Villa Museum in Malibu is opening its doors on Friday, June 27 to the public, following the temporary closure due to the Palisades Fires.

The Getty Villa has a lot of interesting background to it before it was an amazing museum filled with beautiful artwork, it was a house. The Getty Villa was founded by John Paul Getty in 1968 in his ...

A really, really big one. In Malibu. And fill it with 2,000-year-old statues of griffins and leering satyrs and terra-cotta wine cups decorated with scenes of vomiting philosophers.

Instead, the villa remained buried and was forgotten for the next several centuries. When Getty decided to build his Malibu Villa in the 1970s, his architects relied on Weber’s drawings.

In 1979, confirmation came that the J. Paul Getty Museum, a sleepy cultural outpost overlooking the Pacific Ocean at the edge of Malibu, would indeed become the wealthiest art museum in the known ...