• 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...
  • In 1997, the Getty Villa was closed and the collection was relocated to the hilltop Getty Center in Brentwood (Los Angeles).
  • 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).
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  • The smaller but still impressive Getty Villa focuses more on the sculptures and gardens, and its a great place to spend a few hours.
  • Are you planning to visit Getty Villa? Read our tips and information about the art collection, hours, tickets reservation and directions.
  • The Getty Villa is modeled after a first-century Roman country house, the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, Italy from the first century.
  • It was cloudy, almost no sun and Sunday it even started raining. After I finished work on Friday I made plans about my visit to the Getty Center and Getty Villa.