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.

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 Artist Talks are an intimate forum for artists and others to share their perspectives on current exhibitions.

The following talks and tours are offered on a regular basis:

• Getty Center Architecture Tours: 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., 3:00 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
• Collection Highlights Tours: One-hour overviews of major works in the Museum. Tuesdays–Saturdays at 11:00 a.m., Sundays at 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
  Special note: This tour is offered at 1:00 p.m. Tuesdays–Saturdays when the Exhibitions Pavilion is closed for installation.
• 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.
• Exhibition Tours: One-hour tours of special exhibitions, offered periodically. Tuesdays–Saturdays at 1:00 p.m.

Please note that tours depart promptly at their scheduled times.

See all upcoming tours and gallery talks.

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 conservation, a wide range of topics in art history, and the Los Angeles art scene.

See all upcoming lectures and conferences.

Photo: Carol Petersen

Our rich performance and film schedule includes dance, music, film and video, and spoken word.

Saturday Nights at the Getty is a free, contemporary performance series featuring an eclectic mix of music, dance, theater, and spoken word events.

Each year, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 and Conservator's Gallery Talks. Explore fascinating aspects of the ancient world with Focus Tours, offered on select days at 3:00 p.m.

The following talks and tours are offered on a regular basis:

• Getty Villa Architecture Tours: Explore the architecture of the Getty Villa and learn more about daily life in the ancient world in this 40-minute tour. Wednesday–Monday at 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m., and 3:30 p.m.
• Getty Villa Garden Tours: Discover the rich mythological and cultural connections of ancient gardens in this 40-minute tour of the Getty Villa's four Roman gardens. Wednesday–Monday at 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:30 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. Selected days at 3:00 p.m. Read about Focus Tours on our blog.

Please note that tours depart promptly at their scheduled times.

See all upcoming tours and gallery talks.

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.

An exciting 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.

The Villa Play-Reading Series offers "script-in-hand" renditions of lesser-known Greek and Roman plays in translation.

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.

See all upcoming performances and films.

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.

Free artist-at-work demonstrations offer a close-up look at the techniques of ancient artisans.

See all upcoming courses and demonstrations.

Family Festivals, Art Odyssey family tours, art-making workshops, and more are offered year-round at the Getty Villa.

See Tips for Families for more information on family programs at the Getty Villa.

See all upcoming family activities.

Visit the Getty Villa
Admission to the Getty Villa is free. An advance, timed ticket is required for general admission; separate tickets are required for events and programs. Book your free tickets to the Getty Villa here. For questions about ticketing and admission, please see frequently asked questions.