Museum

    Wearing a dress covered in butterflies and a wide-brimmed white hat, a visitor looks at a wall of paintings.
    Fostering enjoyment and understanding of art

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    Exhibition

    Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World

    Encounter the tumultuous relationship and cultural connections between ancient Greece, Rome and their rival, the great empire of Persia.

    Close up of a winged lion creature made of gold, encircled in a braid of gold.

    Visit

    • Getty Center

      Open today
      Visitors look up towards the J. Paul Getty Museum on the plaza of the Getty Center.

      Hours

      Daily
      10am–5:30pm
      Monday
      Closed

      Admission is free, though temporarily requires a timed-entry reservation.

      Reserve entry time
    • Getty Villa Museum

      Open today
      Aerial image of a garden, with a long blue fountain and corridors on the sides

      Hours

      Daily
      10am–5pm
      Tuesday
      Closed

      Admission is free, and requires a timed-entry reservation.

      Reserve entry time

    Explore the Collection

    Discover art from ancient Greece and Italy, Europe from the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, and global photography from its invention to now

    A lion bites savagely into the back of an onager—an Asian wild ass—that lies on the ground.