The collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center includes pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; 19th- and 20th-century American, European, and Asian photographs; contemporary and modern sculpture; and Robert Irwin's Central Garden, designed specifically for the Getty Center.
The unique design elements, beautiful gardens, open spaces and spectacular views at the Richard Meier-designed museum makes the Getty Center an extraordinary destination in and of itself.
Please check the museum website for updated exhibition information. Scheduling may have been modified as a result of the temporary museum closure.
A focused exhibition highlights the ways late 19th-century artists depicted the Alps
The illusion of three-dimensional objects floating in space
Explores a collaboration between artists and engineers
The cultural and historical context of a magnificent object
Explores the ways the science of light was studied during the “Long Middle Ages” (800–1600)
Mysteries of astrology intersecting with medicine, divination, and daily life in the Middle Ages
How his understanding of light and color informed his painting practice
Explores the interaction of paper and light
Tracing 35 years of the cultural and personal impacts of migration and memory
His vision of modern masculinity in a major international loan exhibition
A global history of photobooks by women photographers
A calibrated array of prisms cast a dazzling display of luminous color
A meditative sculpture and light installation
Photographs by international artists using experimental lighting from the 1920s - 1950s