if the museum suffers earthquake tremors, the pieces don’t risk toppling. For now, all the Getty’s art at both locations appears to be riding out the ongoing disaster in surreal silence.

Under siege by Los Angeles wildfires, the J. Paul Getty Museum is emerging as a near-miraculous beacon of disaster preparedness. Behind the scenes, it’s taking a small army to defend.

and Etruscan art from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity—some of which is partially held at its second campus, the Getty Villa. Days before the threat of fire reached the museum’s main venue over ...

Paul Getty Museum's priceless collection ... pretty much the safest place for a work of art to be in the middle of a fire," said Fleming. The museum's collection includes more than 400 European ...

The museum has also described itself as “the safest place for art during a fire,” detailing in a 2019 article the anti-fire engineering of the Getty Center, which opened in 1997. Late Saturday ...

It houses more than 125,000 pieces of art and 1.4 million documents ... safest place possible,” the article reads. The Getty Villa art museum stands undamaged after the passage of the wind ...