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17 employees helped save the Getty Villa from the fires. They're telling other museums how it was done
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 ...
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Wildfire evacuations expand to Getty Center, one of Los Angeles' leading museums
Is the Getty Villa safe from the fires? The Getty Villa art museum is threatened by the flames of the wind-driven Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California, on Jan. 7, 2025. A fast-moving ...
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Wildfire evacuation orders expand to Getty Center, one of L.A.'s leading museums
Is the Getty Villa safe from the fires? The Getty Villa art museum is threatened by the flames of the wind-driven Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California, on Jan. 7, 2025. A fast-moving ...
The Washington Post25d
Inside the Getty museums’ defense against the L.A. wildfires
Paul Getty Museum faced encroaching flames ... as a “marvel of anti-fire engineering.” The Villa, which focuses on ancient Greek and Roman art, also has a well-tuned anti-fire protocol that ...
Wall Street Journal26d
The Extraordinary Defense of the Getty Museum Against the L.A. Fires
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. Roughly 45 ...
Artnet25d
How the Getty Museum Survived L.A.’s Fires
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 ...
Time Out5d
Getty Villa
oil magnate J Paul Getty opened a museum of his holdings in a faux villa in Malibu, based on the remains of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum. Derision from critics and ridicule from art experts ...
The Independent29d
Los Angeles Getty Center’s priceless collection braces for wildfires as evacuation order expands to museum
The Getty Villa art museum stands undamaged after the passage of the wind-driven Palisades fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood (AFP via Getty Images) The campus’s travertine plazas ...
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Wildfire evacuations expand to Getty Center, one of Los Angeles' leading museums
The evacuation warning comes just days after the museum's other campus, the Getty Villa, was in the line of fire.
Voice of America29d
Braced with defenses against fire, Getty art center faces LA flames
Nestled in the mountains above Los Angeles, the famed art museum is within a new evacuation ... The fire threatened the separate Getty Villa, which also has special flame-resistant protections ...
USA Today29d
Wildfire evacuations expand to Getty Center, one of Los Angeles' leading museums
Both the Getty Center and Getty Villa are closed ... "the safest place for art during a fire." When a 600-acre fire broke out around the center in October 2019, the museum said there was no ...