Getty Center is a museum with marvelus architectures and precious collections, and it was funded by Paul Getty Trust. Paul was a very rich business man who viewed art as a civilizing influence in society and strongly believed in making art available to the public for its education and enjoyment. He opened the J. Paul Getty Museum to the public in 1954. This small museum, established in his ranch house in Malibu, housed collections of Greek and Roman antiquities, 18th-century French furniture, and European paintings. Fascinated with the ancient world of the Mediterranean, he later built a Roman-style villa, modeled after the Villa dei Papiri of the first century A.D. When most of Mr. Getty's personal estate passed to the Trust in 1982, the Trustees sought to make a greater contribution to the visual arts through an expanded museum as well as a range of new programs. Getty Center was opened in 1997. http://www.getty.edu/ The admission was free, and we just needed to pay $15 for parking. We took Tram from parking lot to the hilltop Getty Center, and the Tram was computer-operated. It took about 5 minutes to get to the Center.
The buildings and the design of the Center were modern, but we loved its gardens the most. There are 2 gardens, and we loved Central Garden more because it's bigger and has lots of different kinds of flowers and plants.
Kids were not very interested in collections, but they loved to spend time in the family room. We drew, made masks, played with plastic tubes, different mirrors, magnets and more.
It also had free umbrella for travelers to borrow if it's hot outside. We borrowed 2, and they reminded me of 歐巴桑 in summer.
We stayed about 4 hours there, and I took a short video clip :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og7tiw-u_SA. For more photos, please see the slide show on the sidebar.
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