• A reddish brown hummingbird with wings outstretched alights on the edge of a round fountain with cat-head spigots in the Getty Villa’s East Garden.
  • 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...
  • Getting There: By Car: The Getty Villa is located at 17985 Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) in Pacific Palisades (Malibu), just north of the intersection with Sunset...
  • The renovation of The Getty Villa Museum consisted of several pieces: a museum update, the new Getty Conservation Institute, and an expanded Visitor...
  • Getty Villa has objects dating from 6,500 BC to 400 BC, including both impressive monumental sculptures as well as everyday objects from ancient history.
  • The Getty Villa houses the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of approximately 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities.
  • In 1974, oil magnate J Paul Getty opened a museum of his holdings in a faux villa in Malibu, based on the remains of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum.
  • 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 smaller but still impressive Getty Villa focuses more on the sculptures and gardens, and its a great place to spend a few hours.