In short, it's an amazing museum on top of a 900 foot hill built by the J. Paul Getty trust to house the artwork he collected during his lifetime. Shortly after we arrived, we took a guided tour of the gardens and walked through 2 of the 5 museum wings. The place houses classic art with some well known pieces organized into small, easily walkable rooms. One area houses rotating exhibits - right now it's "Paris: Life and Luxury" showing the art, luxury household objects and the lifestyle of the Paris rich before the French Revolution.
I'm going to show you pictures of the grounds, buildings and view.
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| View from a nearby neighborhood |
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| View from the 'hood |
Here's some art in the courtyard. The one on the steps is made of lead and is called "Air".
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| The courtyard from the tops of the steps. You can see the tram on the left. Apparently, the art as moved. |
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| It's back! |
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| I'm not sure what was in that building, but it included a restaurant. |
Some pictures from the garden tour. The gardens were designed by Robert Irwin. Irwin was an artist who moved into "installation art" and landscape projects later in his life. The guide mentioned that he and the museum architect (Richard Meier) didn't get along because the both thought the work of the other would overwhelm the site. She also pointed out a lot of the thought and detail that went into the landscaping. For example, she mentioned that gardeners remove every other leaf from the trees in the garden pictured below to provide the right amount of dappled sunlight.
More on the buildings:
And the views towards Los Angeles and the ocean.
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