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Visit the Getty Villa Museum in Pacific Palisades to enjoy Greek and Roman art housed in a re-created Roman seaside home.
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Visitors to the Getty Villa Museum can explore four different Roman-inspired gardens that blend architecture with nature.
Highlights of a visit to the Getty Villa Museum in Pacific Palisades include ancient Greek and Roman art, architecture inspired by Roman villas, charming gardens, and a museum store with unique products.
The Getty Villa is an educational center and art museum located at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. One of two campuses of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Villa is dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria.
Jun 26, 2019 · Oil magnate J. Paul Getty used some of his vast wealth to amass an incredible art and antiquities collection, first displayed in his ranch house on a bluff overlooking the Pacific. In the early 70s, he had a Romanesque villa constructed next to his house to be a permanent museum for his collection.
Aug 31, 2023 · In the early 1970s, Getty set about building a museum to house his collection on his 64 acre Malibu ranch. He modeled it on a luxury Roman villa from 40 B.C., the Villa dei Papiri excavated near Herculaneum and Pompeii.
The Getty Villa is the museum just off the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH that includes a replica of a Roman villa (not the same as the Getty Center). The grounds are beautiful, as are the villa gardens, and those by themselves are worth the price of admission (which is $0).