and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria and houses approximately 44,000 works dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD, of which over 1,200 are on view. Another stunning location, sporting a view of the vast Pacific Ocean, which is just 100 feet from the front entrance—I guess it’s good to be a Getty. The J. Paul Getty Museum is located at 1200 Getty Center Drive in Los Angeles. The Getty Villa is located at 17985 Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades. And guess what folks, both are totally free, though there are fees for parking. For tickets and more information call 310.440.7300 or go
togetty.edu.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art Honestly, you could spend hours—actually
This is just a tiny cross-section of the museum’s large collection that ranges from the Stammheim Missal, a manuscript created in the 1100s, sculptural works beginning from approximately 1450, decorative arts and a photography collection that began in 1884.
days—wandering this crazy-quilt campus without even touching all that this Miracle Mile Los Angeles art institution has to offer at Museum Row. Known affectionately as LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art began in 1965 and has been “devoted to collecting works of art that span both history and geography, in addition to representing Los Angeles’ uniquely diverse population.” Now considered the largest art repository in the
western United States, the museum contains over 120,000 items from antiquity to the present, broadly encompassing the geographic world and nearly the entire history of art. LACMA’s strengths include its holdings of Asian art, Latin American art, from Pre- Columbian masterpieces to works by leading mod- ern and contemporary artists; as well as Islamic art, of
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” -Pablo Picasso
which the museum hosts one of the most important collections in the world. Rooted in what was the Los Angeles Museum of
History, Science and Art during the 1910 Exposi- tion, LACMA retains its original three properties on
The Getty Villa The Getty Museum began at J. Paul Getty’s home in
Pacific Palisades in 1954, which Getty later expanded with a complete museum wing. As the collection grew, a replica inspired by the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum was constructed, just below Getty’s original location, opening in 1974. Known as the Getty Villa the site re-opened in January of 2006 after a major renovation project designed by Rodolpho Machado and Jorge Silvetti begun in 1997. This coastal branch is dedicated to the study of the arts
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