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Getty Center
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campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust in Los Angeles
Key facts
- Established
- December 16, 1997 ( 1997-12-16 )
- Location
- 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles , California
- Type
- Art museum
- Visitors
- >1,400,000 (2019)
- President
- Katherine Elizabeth Fleming
- Architect
- Richard Meier
- Public transit access
- Los Angeles Metro Bus : 233 , Rapid 761 via Getty Center Tram
- Website
- getty.edu/center
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.getty.edu
- Image
- 2024 Getty Center 07.jpg
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- street address
- Getty Center Drive 1200
- online catalog URL
- www.getty.edu/art/collection
- Commons category
- Getty Center
- inception
- 1997-01-01
- visitors per year
- 508449
- Commons Institution page
- Getty Center
- date of official opening
- 1997-00-00
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Article
The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, US, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust. The $1.3 billion center opened to the public on December 16, 1997, and is well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles. The center sits atop a hill connected to a visitors' parking garage at the bottom of the hill by a three-car, cable-pulled hovertrain people mover.
Located in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, the center is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum and draws 1.8 million visitors annually. (The other location is the Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.) The center branch of the museum features pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and photographs from the 1830s through present day from all over the world. In addition, the museum's collection at the center includes outdoor sculpture displayed on terraces and in gardens and the large Central Garden designed by Robert Irwin. Among the artworks on display is the Vincent van Gogh painting Irises.