Sustainability
Welcome to a Greener Getty
Birders peek through the blooms, hoping to spot birds hiding in the foliage.
Sustainability Statement
Getty extends our commitment to exhibiting, conserving, and understanding the world’s artistic and cultural heritage to include environmental stewardship. For Getty, a healthy planet is fundamental to our ability to carry out our mission to preserve, learn from, and share our collective heritage. From this understanding, we embrace our responsibility to work towards an accessible and inclusive society and an ecologically healthy planet. Inspired by the international Sustainable Development Goals, Getty is investing in and implementing sustainability actions across our operations and programs, helping build capacity across the cultural sector to tackle sustainability challenges, and harnessing the power of the arts and humanities to reflect on and envision a positive and attainable future.
In March 2026, Getty and a cohort of LA arts institutions announced their joint commitment to climate action through implementing the Bizot Green Protocol, a set of recommendations that offer environmentally sustainable approaches for the long-term care of collections. The group includes Getty, LACMA, MOCA, the Hammer Museum, and Hauser & Wirth. We invite you to learn more about Getty’s climate action practices and read the joint statement.
Our Green Goals at Getty
Getty defines sustainability as uniting and balancing our commitments and actions toward safeguarding cultural heritage, improving planetary health, advancing accessibility and inclusivity, and managing our resources so that present and future generations can thrive and continue to enjoy the natural and cultural heritage under Getty’s stewardship.
We are underway with defining targeted goals and the performance metrics to assess our progress toward our goals, with our new Sustainability Advisory Committee. We look forward to announcing our new goals publicly when this work is completed.
Did You Know
You can participate in our sustainability efforts during your visit
- You have eco-friendly transportation options to Getty Center and Getty Villa
- You can charge your electric or hybrid electric vehicles at Getty Center and Getty Villa
- Our food packaging is compostable
- There are trash, recycle, and compost receptacles around our sites to make it easier for visitors to sort their waste
- If you bring your own reusable, clean coffee cup to our coffee carts or café, you can receive a 10% discount on any coffee, tea, or specialty lemonade beverage. Note: Maximum cup volume for this discount program is 16 ounces, since that is the largest size sold at our carts. The cup needs to be clean and reusable. Used paper cups from a previous purchase are not eligible for this discount.
Be on the lookout for....
- Cool new hats and totes made in partnership with Peder Cho/Utopia from our recycled exhibition banners in the Getty Center Museum Store in the West Pavilion - they are going fast!
- Native and drought-tolerant plants: to support biodiversity, sustainability, and enhance our connection between art and nature, we're updating landscaping near the Getty Center's main entry and planning how to restore the acres of Getty Vila's lands in the wake of the Palisades Fire.
Events
Recurring Events
Earth Month
In the News
ARTnews, Collective Climate Action Implemented by Los Angeles Arts Institutions
The Art Newspaper, Climate report from Getty’s PST Art programme urges cultural organisations to confront exhibitions’ impacts
National Geographic, Climate disasters threaten irreplaceable works of art. Museums have a battle plan
The Economist, The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster
ARTnews, The Getty Launches Global Art and Sustainability Fellowship Program
The New York Times, Scorched Stumps and Spotless Art at the Reopened Getty Villa
Take a Deeper Dive
Meet our Sustainability Director
