The Getty Villa, Los Angeles

Visit the Getty Villa for a great experience enjoying Gettys huge collection of historyc artifacts and the marvelous architecture of the villa. In its prime period the villa hosted big parties visited by Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities.

The Getty Villa is at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. One of two campuses of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria.

The collection has 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD, including the Lansdowne Heracles and the Victorious Youth.

The UCLA/Getty Master’s Program in Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation is housed on this campus.

The Getty Villa hosts live performances in both its indoor auditorium and its outdoor theatre. Indoor play-readings included The Trojan Women, Aristophanes’ The Frogs, and Euripides’ Helen.

Indoor musical performances, which typically relate to art exhibits, included: Musica Angelica, De Organographia, and Songs from the Fifth Age: Sones de México in Concert.

The auditorium also held a public reading of Homer’s Iliad.

Outdoor performances included Aristophanes’ Peace, Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, and Sophocles’ Elektra.

The Getty Villa also hosts visiting exhibitions beyond its own collections.

For example, in March 2011 “In Search of Biblical Lands” was a photographic exhibition which included scenes of the Middle East dating back to the 1840s.

Here is a video from our visit to the Getty villa:

Here is where you can find out more about the Getty Villa: https://www.getty.edu/visit/villa/

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