Enhancements to the Getty Center during its one-year closing include revitalized galleries and improvements to the tram system.
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The world’s wealthiest museum is getting a makeover.
The Getty Center in Los Angeles will close its doors for the first time since its 1997 opening beginning March 15, 2027. After enhancements to the 110-acre property, the planned re-opening in spring 2028 will be in time for the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.
“Getty is embarking on an exciting new chapter,” said Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, in a statement. Citing one of its mottos, “All for Art,” Fleming said spaces will be “reimagined” and “new offerings” will be created.
The Getty Center cost $1.3 billion to build.
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New enhancements to the Richard Meier-designed building include revitalized galleries that “bring art in dialogue with nature,” according to the statement. Art lovers can also expect new art commissions and improvements to buildings, public spaces and utilities.
The Center’s tram system will also be upgraded. It ferries 1.8 million visitors a year on a four-minute ride up the Santa Monica Mountains to the hilltop museum. That refresh will include “a redesigned arrival and departure experience,” according to the Getty Center.
The Central Garden at the Getty Center, designed by Robert Irwin.
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The renovation is estimated to cost from $600 million to $800 million, reports the Los Angeles Times.
The Getty Center, located in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, houses pre-20th-century European paintings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative art, and photographs.
The Getty Villa, perched on the Malibu coast about ten miles away from the Getty Center, will remain open.
The Getty Villa is a recreation of an ancient Roman country house, the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum.
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J. Paul Getty’s original museum, the Getty Villa, opened in 1974 as a recreation of an ancient Roman country house, the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. The 64-acre property is dedicated to Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities, some 44,000 works spanning 6,500 BC to 400 AD. The Villa was closed in early January 2025, when the Palisades Fire threatened the site; it reopened in June of that year.
During the Getty Center closure, the Getty Villa will add a gallery featuring standout works from the Center’s collection: van Gogh, Monet, Degas, Rubens and Rembrandt, reports the New York Times.
Visitors look at Roman fresco fragments of Maenad (L), Bacchus and Ariadne (C) and a Satyr, from 01-75 AD, on exhibit at the Getty Villa Museum in Malibu, California
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The Getty Center cost $1.3 billion to build, and is backed by an endowment of roughly $7-8 billion, making it the wealthiest art institution in the world. By collection value, the Louvre is regarded as the most valuable museum in the world, given its unparalleled collection of masterpieces.
30th April 1965: American oil executive, multi-millionaire and art collector J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976) attends a private viewing of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London, with his English solicitor, Robina Lund.
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During its closure, the Getty Center will present its full slate of programs and exhibitions, unabated. Its featured exhibition, Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985, opened on February 24 and runs to June 14.
Another Los Angeles cultural institution will close July 6 for a two-year renovation: the George C. Page Museum. Also called the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, the institution has one of the largest repositories of Ice Age fossils in the world—oddly and wonderfully situated in the middle of the city. Located in Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile district, the site has natural asphalt seeps that for aeons have trapped and preserved plants, insects and animals.
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