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. Derision from critics and ridicule from ...

Some "trees and vegetation on site" of the Getty Villa Museum have burned amid a fast ... and will remain closed through at least Monday. California Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of ...

Fleming said that the staff knew exactly how to respond as the Pacific Palisades fire threatened the Getty Villa, a re-creation of a Roman villa on the Malibu coast. The sister museum was not ...

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The survival of the Getty Villa during the Palisades Fire was a bright spot for many in southern California, and now, those ...

On Jan. 7, the day the Palisades Fire began, more than a dozen Getty staffers used emergency preparation tactics to help save the Getty Villa from going up in flames. Now, other museums want to ...

The sweeping fires in California have killed 24 people ... that the Getty Centre’s sister facility, the Getty Villa museum in Malibu, was “safe and intact” but that trees and vegetation ...

The Getty Villa art museum is threatened by the flames of the wind-driven Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California ... in the Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and the surrounding areas," said ...