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Colonnade, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Malibu, Calif.
Colonnade, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Malibu, Calif.

The Getty Villa, located in Malibu, California, is a museum dedicated to the art and culture of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. It was originally built by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty as a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri, an ancient Roman home discovered at Herculaneum.12

The Villa first opened in 1974, and after Getty's death, his fortune was used to establish the Getty Trust. The trust funded the creation of the Getty Center, which opened in 1997 and houses European art and photography. The Getty Villa itself underwent renovation and reopened in 2006, now displaying Getty's collection of antiquities. The grounds of the Villa were affected by a wildfire in early 2025, but the collection was unharmed.12

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