GettyGuide® interactive multimedia content features videos, audio recordings, and detailed information about the works of art on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum. GettyGuide can be accessed on an iPod touch® at the Museum, on your smartphone with the Goggles® app for iPhone and Android, and on the Museum Collection section of this website.
GettyGuide Multimedia Player
Enhance your visit with a GettyGuide multimedia player, available at the Pick-Up Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall. The player features insightful commentary from curators, conservators, and artists on over 300 works of art in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center and in special exhibitions.
A tour of highlights of the collection is included in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Russian.
A visual descriptions audio tour offers detailed descriptions of works in the Museum's collection for visitors with visual impairments and those seeking an in-depth looking experience.
Children ages 6 and up can listen to fun facts about art jazzed up with music, sound effects, and more on the Family Tour, available in English and Spanish. It's a great way for families to learn about art together.
In addition, there are three 30-minute thematic tours available:
By kids, for kids, our witty Demons, Angels, and Monsters audio tour looks at the supernatural in art and features the voices of tweens and a few demons, angels, and monsters.
Get a taste of the objects in the Museum's collection and learn how food and wine connect works of art to fantasy, fashion, and politics over time in our An Art Tasting audio tour centered in the South Pavilion.
Listen to the voices of some animals that live in the North Pavilion. From a famous painted hare, to a bronze boar, to a few carved lions, each has something funny or surprising to say in our Straight from the Horse's Mouth audio tour.
Teachers of grades 9–12 can reserve GettyGuide multimedia players for their students to use free of charge during Self-Guided Visits.
GettyGuide on the Web
Browse the Getty's collection on the Museum Collection section of this website and bookmark works of art to create a customized tour and printable map. When you get to the Getty Center, you can find the works you've read about.
You can also e-mail your bookmarks to friends and family so you can plan your visit together.
GettyGuide® interactive multimedia content features videos, audio recordings, and detailed information about the works of art on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum. GettyGuide can be accessed on an iPod touch® at the Museum, as well as the Museum Collection section of this website.
GettyGuide Multimedia Player
Enhance your visit with a GettyGuide multimedia player, available for $5 on the first floor of the Museum. The device features videos and insightful commentary from curators and conservators on over 150 works of art in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa and in special exhibitions.
The 45-minute collection highlights tour on the multimedia player introduces you to some the Museum's most breathtaking ancient objects, including a life-size statue of Herakles and a dazzling ensemble of ancient gold jewelry. The family tour brings ancient art and culture alive for kids. Both the highlights tour and the family tour are offered in English and Spanish.
A visual descriptions audio tour offers detailed descriptions of works in the Museum's collection for visitors with visual impairments and those seeking an in-depth looking experience.
GettyGuide on the Web
Browse the antiquities collection on the Museum Collection section of this website and bookmark works of art you'd like to see. E-mail your bookmarks to friends and family so you can plan your visit together.
You can also bookmark works of art at a GettyGuide station at the Getty Villa, then read about them later on this website.
