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| The Visiting Info shown below, if any, is always subject to change. Please check the facility's website for the latest information before making a trip.
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| The Getty Center - Los Angeles |
The Getty Center presents the Getty's collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present against a backdrop of dramatic architecture, tranquil gardens, and breathtaking views. European paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculpture and decorative arts, and European and American photographs.
A selection from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, as well as modern architecture and gardens. An orientation film gives an overview of the collections on view at the Getty Center. |
| 1200 Getty Center Drive |
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| Los Angeles |
| CA |
| 90049-1687 |
Tuesday–Thursday and Sunday10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Friday and Saturday 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
Closed Monday and on January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving, and December 25. |
Admission to the Getty Center is FREE—no tickets or reservations required for general admission. Parking is $8.
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| (310) 440-7300 |
| http://www.getty.edu |
 | | KF, Co-op Member | Getty Center is simply a must-go place in LA despite its current $15 parking fee. Or take public transport to avoid the parking fee! Per website: "It [parking] is FREE after 5:00 p.m. for the Getty Center's evening hours on Saturdays (when we are open until 9:00 p.m.), as well as for all evening public programming, including music, film, lectures, and other special programs held after 5:00 p.m."
Homeschoolers should organize fieldtrips to visit because you get free parking as well as a parking pass to come back free. That is already $30 saved ... book online early and wait for them to confirm. BUT PLEASE HAVE EVERYONE NN YOUR GROUP BEHAVE RESPONSIBLY TO KEEP THE GOOD REPUTATION OF HOMESCHOOLERS WHO DO FIELDTRIPS THERE!! If you cannot come to LA, check out the info on all their previous exhibits as well as current ones.
Getty Center is just world class for its art, sculpture and period furniture offerings, complex architecture, construction history as well as for its research center and the beautiful gardens - don't miss the desert garden tucked away. It has daily orientation video introduction (must see for its history and construction!) as well as daily art focus and special tours plus garden and architectural tours. Not to mention the cool team ride up and down from the parking lot.
Our family goes to nearly every Family Festival days they have organized which focuses around a theme of a current exhibit. The next one will be on Leonardo Da Vinci's era ... so probably on Italian/Florentine culture and there will always be great story telling, musical performances and fantastic art centers .... our art/history curriculum is greatly enriched by our participation in their art projects with focus on different cultures and different art technologies.
Interesting tidbit: Do you know that you can mail a postcard decorated at Getty Center to anywhere in the world on their family festival days postage paid by Getty?
You just have to make an all-day trip and don't forget the family art rooms where kids can climb into beds as well as have hands-on fun. Pick up a art detective card! There are also family art tours which include children over 5. If you only have one-hour to see all the important exhibits, take the special tour to focus on their masterpieces.
Enjoy Getty Center - you won't regret it! The views from different angles of the Center is simply amazing. |
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| | Mary Beth, Co-op Member | | We visited the Getty as a family. My bias is that such museums are really nice to do in very small groups because kids in larger groups don't ponder the art that moves them...they move their bodies around instead. My 9 and 14 year old boys have been to art museums across the world and really took to the Getty. We all decided to do something we rarely do: start with a docent-guided tour. What a great idea. The docents for the actual artwork are Masters or Doctoral degree art historians and it really shows. We took a survey tour and asked so many questions and received amazing answers. The boys ended up taking pictures with my iPhone (no flash, but photos allowed) and taking notes. This was THEIR idea! Later, they felt confident to wander together to specific exhibits and my husband and I took the fascinating architecture tour. These tours are done by motivated,experienced volunteers. Overall, I would say that the Getty has the best educational mission of any American art museum and is matched only by the British Museum in London. Get there. For a family of 4, the $15 parking fee equalled a $4 admission fee per person for a full day. Really worth it. |
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