Getty Center
The Getty Center Exhibitions Pavilion.
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| Established | 1997 |
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| Location | Los Angeles, California |
| Coordinates | 34°04′39″N 118°28′30″W / 34.07750°N 118.47500°WCoordinates: 34°04′39″N 118°28′30″W / 34.07750°N 118.47500°W |
| Collection size | art museum |
| Visitors | 1,153,903 for 2009 |
| President | James Cuno |
| Architect | Richard Meier |
| Public transit access |
Train: Getty Center Monorail |
| Website | http://www.getty.edu/art/ |
The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, 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 funicular.
Located in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, the Center is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum and draws 1.3 million visitors annually. (The other location is the Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.) The Center branch of the Museum features pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and 19th- and 20th-century American, Asian, and European photographs. 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.
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