Villa Getty

See also: Getty (homonymy)

The Villa Getty is an American museum devoted to the collections of antiquities, founded in 1974 by the tycoon of finance and oil John Paul Getty.

Presentation

This museum is a reconstitution of the Villa of Papyri of Herculaneum, built in the property of John Paul Getty to Malibu, in California. The Villa shelters the collection of John Paul Getty made up of approximately 44.000 parts of Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities. The museum comprises twenty-three galleries for the permanent exposures (allowing to expose 1.200 parts simultaneously) and 5 other galleries devoted to the temporary exhibitions. The year of the opening, the museum had a budget record of 700 million dollars. Currently, the annual budget is around 100 million dollars being used the policy as acquisitions.

This museum is the first of the Getty foundation. With the death of Getty in 1976, the foundation inherits a big part of the fortune of the billionaire. So that it can present more a large range of the Getty collections, it decides as of 1980 to aquérir grounds in seen extension of the museum. In 1997 the foundation inaugurates the Getty Center with Los Angeles, much vaster.

After 9 years of closing for work, the museum reopened the January 28th 2006. The restoration, led by Rodolfo Malchado and Jorge Silvetti, cost 275 million dollars (more than 227 million euros).

External bonds

• Official site of the foundation Getty
• Seen air with Google Local

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