📍1200 Getty Center Dr,Los angles
⏰ Closed on Mondays, Saturday 10:00-20:00, Sunday, Tuesday - Friday 10:00-17:30
🎫 Admission is free but reservations are required on the website

Getty Center (Getty Center) is a museum located in Los Angeles, California, United States, opened to the public on December 16, 1997, annual visitors nearly 2 million, all free, is second only to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States a famous art museum. The main features are:

1, funded by the entrepreneur Getty Private Fund. By Jean Paul Getty; December 15, 1892 - June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company. Fortune magazine named him the richest American in 1957 and held the title of richest man in the United States for 20 years. In contrast to the charitable act of building a huge amount of money to build a museum to preserve the immortal cultural heritage for mankind, it is said that he was very stingy and mean during his lifetime. The critically acclaimed 2017 film All the Money in the World, based on his true story, is rather sentimental. After his grandson was kidnapped, he refused to pay the ransom ($17 million), which resulted in his grandson being beaten and suffering from alcoholism and drug addiction.

2, the collection of 44,000 pieces, with classical French furniture, art, medieval manuscripts and handwriting as well as Roman, Greek and European painting collections, of which Greek and Roman collections, in the United States except for the Metropolitan Museum of Art is almost unmatched, the treasure of its town museum is the Vatican. Gao's oil painting "Iris". Painted in 1889 (a year before his death) in a psychiatric hospital, Van Gogh painted this bold work: blue flowers blazing against the sun, rich colors and vibrant compositions are his life's ode to longing and endurance. When the Getty Museum bought it from auction in 1988, it paid $53.9 million, a record price for a painting at auction at the time.


✅ van Gogh Iris
Town museum collection, created in 1889! At that time, Van Gogh had moved into a mental hospital, and in 1889 and 1890, he created a large number of famous paintings, such as 1889 Starry Night, 1889 Wheat Field and Reaper, 1890 Doctor Gachet, and many scholars believe that he tried to cure himself with paintings! Unfortunately, the effort failed. In 1890, after painting "The wheat field of Crows Flying", a generation of masters came to the wheat field they loved and committed suicide with a gun!

✅Richard Meier Architecture
The real masterpiece of Getty Center is the building itself. Designer Richard Meier is known as the Godfather of the White School, and the building is known for its white walls, geometric structure, open space, natural lighting and other concepts. Getty Center is the clever use of natural light multiple reflections, soft light not only set off the artwork, but also avoid the damage of direct ultraviolet rays!

There are also a large number of art collections, such as Monet's sunrise and weeping willows water lily pool, want to seriously visit the best to stay half a day!

3, the building is beautiful, an investment of 1.3 billion US dollars, designed by the world famous white architect Richard Meier himself. The feature is that it not only provides a superior art collection, but also reflects the beauty of the building through the full use of light and shadow by using white as the tone, and the quiet movement of light and scenery. The entire museum is built on the hillside (45 hectares of architecture and landscape) and integrated with the surrounding environment (240 hectares), offering visitors a "comprehensive artistic enjoyment" between the buildings, gardens and the magnificent cityscape of Los Angeles beyond. Richard Meyer, who spent his life designing only white buildings and won the 1984 Pritzker Prize (architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize), built the Shenzhen Chinese Club in China.

It's amazing that the stones for the facade were shipped from Italy? I can't believe it... But really beautiful ah) A total of 7 floors, it is best to look at the outdoor garden outside during the day, and then go in to look inside, halfway from time to time can come out of the corridor balcony overlooking the whole Los Angeles, and finally watch the sunset, so beautiful ah. But better remember to bring something to eat, there is only one coffee stall in addition to the meal, and the queue for a long time is not delicious... Ha-ha. In addition, every place is particularly beautiful, it is best to pat together with girlfriends, it can also be a good place for dating, because every place is good-looking and not embarrassing.