Art on View

Discover the art of the ancient world at the Getty Villa Museum

A couple, a dark-skinned woman wearing a colorful headscarf and medium-skin tone man wearing a loose, white button down, look at a large brown and black vase in a museum gallery

Ancient Art in Context

Home to the Getty Museum’s antiquities collection, the Getty Villa invites you to experience ancient Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art in an intimate setting that recreates a first-century Roman villa.

Floor 1: Greek and Etruscan

The galleries are organized to illustrate the development of art among the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean over time.

On the first floor, enjoy Greek art from the Neolithic and Bronze Age—including some of the oldest and rarest objects in the collection—to the Hellenistic period, when the Greeks developed the first fully naturalistic vision of the human figure.

Other galleries explore the fascinating world of the ancient Etruscans and offer context around the Villa itself, exploring J. Paul Getty’s collecting habits and reasons for creating the Museum.

In a glass case in a darkened gallery, a seated human figure—simply but gracefully rendered from stone—holds the frame of a harp with its outstretched left hand.

Some of the oldest works of art in the Getty Museum's collection are on display in a first-floor gallery focused on neolithic and Bronze Age Greece.

Floor 2: Roman

The journey continues on the second floor with sculpture, jewelry, glassware, mummy portraits, and many other works of art from the Roman Empire.

Don't miss two dramatic, skylit galleries featuring Roman sculpture, and special displays exploring the luxury of an elite Roman’s coastal retreat 2,000 years ago.

Three large mosaic tiles depicting animals at their centers are displayed on a wall in a corridor with a white vaulted ceiling.

A view of a second-floor corridor.

Changing Exhibitions

A variety of special exhibitions is always on view. See what’s on now.

More to See

The Getty collections also include paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints and drawings, manuscripts and rare books, and photographs.

See these collections, focusing on art from the Middle Ages to today, at our second location—the Getty Center in Brentwood, about 13 miles east of the Getty Villa.

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