Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades

1 March 2020 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Architecture, Greater Los Angeles Area, House of the Month, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  13 minutes

© Bobak Ha'Eri/cc-by-3.0

© Bobak Ha’Eri/cc-by-3.0

The Getty Villa is at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. One of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. The collection has 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD, including the Lansdowne Heracles and the Victorious Youth. The UCLA/Getty Master’s Program in Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation is housed on this campus.   read more…

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