Museum · Brentwood
Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles 90049
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The Getty Center sits on a hilltop in Brentwood, reached by a tram from the parking area, with Richard Meier's travertine pavilions, the Central Garden and wide views over the city and the Pacific. Its galleries hold European painting, drawings, manuscripts, sculpture and decorative arts, plus photography, with several rotating exhibitions at once. General admission is free; parking is paid.
Permanent exhibitions
- European paintings from the Renaissance to the late 19th century, including Van Gogh's Irises
- Illuminated medieval and Renaissance manuscripts
- French decorative arts and period rooms of the 17th and 18th centuries
- European sculpture and drawings
- Photographs from the Getty's collection, in rotating displays
- Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Garden and Robert Irwin's Central Garden