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The Getty Center offers a wide range of mostly free public programs that complement the art experience.
Pick up a copy of Today at the Getty Center, which lists the day's programs, as you board the tram.
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Gallery teachers, curators, and docents lead free guided tours of the galleries, architecture, and gardens.
Curator's Gallery Talks are explorations of special exhibitions through the curator's eyes.
Point-of-View Talks are an intimate forum for artists, filmmakers, and others to share their perspectives on current exhibitions.
The following talks and tours are offered every day the Getty Center is open:
• Getty Center Architecture Tours: 30- to 45-minute tours of the site and its architecture.
Tuesday–Sunday at 10:15 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
• Collection Highlights Tours: One-hour overviews of major works in the Museum. Tuesday–Sunday at 11:00 a.m.
• Exhibition Tours: One-hour guided tours of a current exhibition. Tuesday–Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
• Focus Tours: One-hour thematic gallery tours; topic changes daily. Tuesday–Sunday at 3:00 p.m.
• Getty Center Garden Tours: 45-minute tours of the grounds and Central Garden. Tuesday–Sunday at 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m., and 3:30 p.m.
• Masterpiece of the Week Talks: 15-minute explorations of one object; object changes weekly. Tuesday–Sunday at 4:00 p.m.
See all upcoming tours and gallery talks.
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Free lectures and scholarly programs at the Getty Center explore topics related to the collections and current exhibitions.
Conferences, panel discussions, roundtables, and symposia cover a range of topics, including 20th-century art and the Los Angeles art scene.
Conservation Matters, an occasional lecture series, focuses on conservation issues from around the world.
See all upcoming lectures and conferences.
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Our rich performance and film schedule includes dance, music, film and video, and spoken word.
Friday Nights at the Getty is a free, contemporary performance series featuring an eclectic mix of music, dance, theater, and spoken word events.
Each May, Selected Shorts presents actors from stage, screen, and television reading classic and new short fiction.
Gordon Getty Concerts feature world-class musicians in performances that complement exhibitions at the Getty Center.
Sounds of L.A. celebrates the work of masters and up-and-coming musicians reflecting L.A.'s cultural mix, and world music fills the courtyards of the Getty Center in July during Summer Sessions.
Throughout the year, our film series present forgotten classics, crowd favorites, and new discoveries. Occasional screenings of experimental films and videos by 20th-century artists round out the program.
See all upcoming performances and films.
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Gallery courses explore works of art through lectures, close looking, and discussion.
Studio courses focus on special techniques, such as botanical illustration or manuscript illumination.
Twice a month, Getty Drawing Hour provides guided drawing practice in the galleries or outdoors.
Professional artists reveal the secrets of complex techniques at our drop-in artist-at-work demonstrations.
See all upcoming courses and demonstrations.
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Family Festivals, art-making workshops, gallery activities, storytelling, and more are offered year-round at the Getty Center.
Every summer, hear some of the best children's musicians from across the nation in our free Garden Concerts for Kids series in the Central Garden.
See Tips for Families for more information on family programs at the Getty Center.
See all upcoming family activities.
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Poets, artists, and other creative writers offer readings of their work in this occasional series.
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Public programs at the Getty Villa complement its mission as an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria.
Pick up a copy of Today at the Getty Villa, which lists the day's programs, in the Entry Pavilion.
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Museum educators, curators, conservators, and docents lead you on a journey back in time to the ancient world with this rich schedule of talks and tours.
Tour the exhibition galleries with the experts at our Curator's Gallery Talks, offered approximately once per month.
Discover new ways of looking at ancient art from local artists, scholars, and thinkers at our periodic Point-of-View Talks.
The following talks and tours are offered every day the Getty Villa is open:
• Orientation Tours: 45-minute overviews of the Villa and its history, renovation, and mission.
Thursday–Monday at 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m.
• Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tours: 45-minute tours of the site and its architecture and gardens.
Thursday–Monday at 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 3:30 p.m.
• Spotlight Talks: 20-minute discussions of a single object. Monday, Thursday, and Friday at 11:00 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
• Collection Highlights Tours: One-hour overviews of major works in the Museum. Monday, Thursday, and Friday at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 11:00 a.m.
• Focus Tours: One-hour thematic tours of the collection and exhibitions. Thursday–Monday at 3:00 p.m.
See all upcoming tours and gallery talks.
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Free lectures offer new insights on the ancient Western world and its legacy from curators, archaeologists, historians, journalists, and other specialists. Conferences, symposia, and forums consider a wide spectrum of issues relating to the ancient world and to the conservation of antiquities.
Panel discussions focusing on specialized aspects of antiquity are scheduled throughout the year.
See all upcoming lectures and conferences.
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Concerts at the Villa present world-class musicians performing musical masterpieces inspired by ancient art and literature.
An exciting new forum for the reinterpretation of classical theater, Villa Theater Lab features new translations of Greek and Roman plays as well as contemporary works inspired by ancient literature.
Our film series invite you to explore antiquity and its legacy on film, from adaptations of Greek tragedy to contemporary reinterpretations of classical characters and themes.
The Theater Series presents performances rooted in Greek and Roman plays of antiquity, with a major theatrical production presented annually in the Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Outdoor Classical Theater. The program debuted in September 2006 with Euripides' Hippolytos in a new translation by noted poet Anne Carson and continued in September 2007 with Tug of War, an adaptation of the Roman farce Rudens by Plautus. Scheduled for fall 2008 is Aeschylus' Agamemnon directed by Stephen Wadsworth.
See all upcoming performances and films.
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Gallery courses explore the arts of antiquity through lectures, close looking, and discussion.
Taught by professional artists, our studio courses take you into the galleries and art studio to learn from the collection and practice new artistic techniques.
These courses often take place on Wednesdays, offering a chance to enjoy the Villa on a day when it is closed to the public.
Free artist-at-work demonstrations offer a close-up look at the techniques of ancient artisans.
See all upcoming courses and demonstrations.
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