J. Paul Getty Museum

An art museum in Los Angeles, California, known as the Getty, housed on two campuses: the Getty Center in Brentwood and the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades.

The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly called the Getty, is an art museum in Los Angeles, California, operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust. It is housed on two campuses, the Getty Center and the Getty Villa.

The Getty Center stands on a cliff above the Sepulveda Pass in the Brentwood neighborhood and shows pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture and decorative arts, as well as photographs from around the world. The Getty Villa, the original Getty museum, overlooks the Pacific Ocean in Pacific Palisades and displays art from ancient Greece, Rome and Etruria.