The Getty, its president says, is the safest place for art during a fire. There’s a lesson there for all homeowners.
On Jan. 7, the day the Palisades Fire began, more than a dozen Getty staffers used emergency preparation tactics to help save the Getty Villa from going up in flames. Now, other museums want to know ...
For the next 28 hours, Borsay and 16 other staffers organized themselves to supplement fire department efforts and along the way contributed to helping keep the Getty Villa and its priceless art ...
The Getty Villa activated its emergency operations center at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, and within two hours, the fast-moving blaze ...
Thousands of firefighters have been battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely populated Los Angeles County. The ...
was "swiftly closed" to non-emergency staff after the fire started, according to Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the museum. The villa will ...
The fast-moving wildfire has so far burned vegetation at the Pacific Palisades museum but not the building.
Aerial footage and images showed the fast-growing fire approaching the world-renowned Getty Villa museum, which is closed to the public on Tuesdays. The villa site was quickly closed to non ...
the Getty — with its more than $8 billion endowment — has emerged as a beacon of fire preparedness as well as a symbol of the defenses that wealth can build. From its grounds to the museum’s ...
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 ...
Paul Getty Museum's priceless collection of artwork, which includes paintings by Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Monet and Degas, once again found itself in the path of destruction as the Palisades fire spread.