Getta Villa already open to public
By Chad Winthrop
The Getty Center is expected to reopen to the public in the coming weeks.
According to the museum’s website, the Getty Center is planning on reopening this month.
“Admission is free, though visitors will be temporarily required to make a timed-entry reservation in advance. Capacity will be limited,” reads the webpage.
For those who can’t wait, no need to be restless as the Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades is already open to the public. As always, free advanced reservations will be required to visit the Villa, but to avoid overcrowding a limited number of reservations will be available each day. Galleries too small to accommodate social distancing will be closed, and paths through the galleries and gardens will be one-way.
Visitors to the Villa have the opportunity – at last – to see Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins, which was slated to open just days after the Getty Villa was forced to close in March 2020. Organized by the Getty Museum and the Musee du Louvre, Paris, the exhibition features work from the Musée du Louvre with select additional loans from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
On view are many of the most renowned masterpieces of Mesopotamian art, including the silver cult vase of the Sumerian king Enmetena, the cylinder seal of the royal scribe Ibni-sharrum, statues of Gudea and other kings of Babylonia, and a glazed brick lion from the Ishtar Gate in Babylon.
