The Getty Villa has caught fire in the wind-driven fire burning out of control in Pacific Palisades, according to Los Angeles ...

Flames made it to within 6 feet of the Getty Villa and yet it survived. Inside the museum’s powerful tools for disaster preparedness.

The Getty Villa activated its emergency operations center at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, and within two hours, the fast-moving blaze ...

The museum honors the arts and cultures ... rare collection of artifacts and antiquities from Greek, Roman and Etruscan art. The Getty Villa is known for hosting Hollywood soirées, prominent ...

And in room 108 stands a 1,900-year-old statue of Hercules, a real alpha-male figure that reputedly inspired Getty to built the museum in the design of a Roman villa. Upstairs, room 217 holds an ...

The Getty Villa, which is already closed to the public on Tuesdays, was “swiftly closed” to non-emergency staff after the fire started in the morning.

Paul Getty Museum is emerging as ... the older Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades, which arrays antiquities in a space designed to evoke a Roman country house, and the newer white-stone Getty ...

The recreated Roman villa, which often hosts high-profile events among the art, remained unharmed. According to Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the museum was ...

The Getty Villa remained standing as fires razed homes around it. Getty staff have been doing simple yard work all year that homeowners should follow.

Museum galleries and library archives ... dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD within a re-created Roman country home. The Getty Villa will remain closed to the public through at least Monday.

Built in 1954 by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty and opened as a museum in 1974, the 64-acre Getty Villa houses more than 44,000 objects, including priceless antiquities — Roman, Greek and Etruscan relics ...