The Getty Villa
- 17985 Pacific Coast Hwy, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
The Getty Villa is the former residence of Paul Getty and is designed to resemble a 1stcentury Italian villa. It serves today as an educational center and museum that houses the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of more than 44,000 Roman, Greek and Etruscan artifacts.
The permanent collection of 1,200 works is on view in 23 galleries, while five more galleries show changing or visiting exhibits. The Villa is surrounded by a large, beautiful formal garden filled with roses and trailing English ivy, with a number of Roman statues snuggled among the greenery.