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The Getty Villa, a museum in California
The Getty Villa, a museum in CaliforniaDave & Margie Hill / Kleerup from Centennial, CO, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Getty Villa, a museum in California
Dave & Margie Hill / Kleerup from Centennial, CO, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Getty Villa, a museum in California
Dave & Margie Hill / Kleerup from Centennial, CO, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Getty Villa, a museum in California
Dave & Margie Hill / Kleerup from Centennial, CO, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Getty Villa, a museum in California
Dave & Margie Hill / Kleerup from Centennial, CO, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Getty Villa, a museum in California
Dave & Margie Hill / Kleerup from Centennial, CO, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

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The Getty Villa is a museum in California, at a modelled elevation of 51 m. Oat Mountain stands 1,138 m to the north, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Bust of a Poet or Philosopher (Pseudo-Seneca), a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 18 miles off.

About

The story

The Getty Villa is an educational center and an art museum located 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 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.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dates from 1954.

Wikidata Q180401, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
The J. Paul Getty Trust
Fee
No

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates34.04436, -118.56507

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
  • Bust of a Poet or Philosopher (Pseudo-Seneca): 0.0 mi
  • Runner: 0.0 mi
  • Drunken Satyr: 0.0 mi
  • Bust of a Youth: 0.0 mi
  • Bust of an Athlete: 0.0 mi
Gardens
  • Herb Garden: 0.0 mi
  • East Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Yale Street Urban Garden: 5.4 mi
  • Lower Terrace Sculpture Garden: 5.6 mi
  • Central Garden: 5.6 mi
Peaks
Parks
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
  • Case Study House #9: 2.8 mi
  • Maison Johnny Halliday: 3.1 mi
  • fresh prince of bel air: 4.5 mi
  • Santa Monica Pier: 4.6 mi
  • Inkie's Scrambler: 4.6 mi
Picnic sites: 35
Beaches: 27
Springs: 11
  • Eagle Spring: 4.3 mi
  • Kuruvungna Springs: 6.1 mi
  • Siutcanga Spring(LA River source): 8.8 mi
  • Lower Sulphur Spring: 11.8 mi
  • Hialeah Springs: 16.6 mi
Waterfalls: 7
  • Temescal Falls: 2.3 mi
  • Santa Ynez Falls: 3.3 mi
  • Escondido Falls (Upper): 12.3 mi
  • Escondido Falls (Lower): 12.3 mi
  • Sycamore Falls: 22.9 mi
Cliffs: 6
  • Malibu Bluffs: 7.9 mi
  • Porter Ranch Palisades: 17.0 mi
  • Porter Ranch Palisades: 17.1 mi
  • Porter Ranch Palisades: 17.1 mi
  • Kima Point: 21.3 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Coba Arch: 16.8 mi
Hot springs: 1
  • Spa Palace: 17.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.1 miles of The Getty Villa. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oat MountainN 354°1,138 m19.8 mi
Castro PeakWNW 283°855 m12.9 mi
Saddle PeakWNW 294°851 m5.7 mi
Mission PointN 6°832 m18.6 mi
Rocky PeakNNW 347°797 m17.6 mi
Simi PeakNW 312°732 m16.6 mi
Chatsworth PeakNNW 343°692 m15.3 mi
Calabasas PeakNW 313°657 m6.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3319:06
June solstice05:4419:3320:10
September equinox06:4318:1918:53
December solstice06:5716:1116:50

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F565657586063656666636057
Precip in3.13.11.70.60.20.10.00.00.00.50.82.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Santa Monica Pier, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/23014640

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