Art Odyssey for Families

This is a recurring event at the Getty Villa on Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades, California.

 Enjoy a one-hour tour of the Getty's Villa galleries, including activities like a challenging children's art project, an entertaining game, an art lesson and lots of family teamwork. The program is also offered in Spanish. Registration for the tour begins at 1:30 p.m. at the museum's main entrance. A times ticket for admission to the museum must be reserved in advance by phone or at the Getty website.

Where: The Getty Villa
Website: http://www.getty.edu
Address: 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
Phone: (310) 440-7300
When: Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.  Register at 1:30 p.m.

Located in Malibu, the Getty Villa is a faux-Roman residence J. Paul Getty built in 1974 for his art collection and is the only museum of Greek and Roman antiquities in America — related to the Getty Center in the way the Cloisters in upper Manhattan, devoted to the art of medieval Europe, are to its parent, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The renovated museum has 48,000 square feet of gallery space displaying 1,200 artifacts — not to mention four gardens with more than 300 flowering plants.

Getty Villa
Pacific Palisades, California

The Getty Villa is located at 17985 Pacific Coast Highway. Take the I-10 (Santa Monica Freeway) west until it turns into Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) going north along the Pacific Ocean. Continue on Route 1 for approximately five miles to the Getty Villa.

The museum is open everyday except Tuesday, Wednesday, New Year's, July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays to Mondays.

Important: Admission to the Getty Villa is free but is restricted at all times by timed tickets, which you must reserve in advance. Please visit http://www.getty.edu/visit/hours/ or call (310) 440-7300 to make your reservations.

Parking is on-site and is available to all ticket holders for $8 per car. Each Villa ticket allows you to bring up to three children ages 15 and under with you in one car.

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