The J. Paul Getty Museum: Handbook of the Collections

The Getty Museum houses not just one of the world’s great collections, but one of the best documented (see also, for example, RR 95/81, 98/88, 98/279), and in accordance with its founder’s wishes, most accessible for the general public. The new Getty Museum in the Santa Monica mountains is within reach of an enormous population in surrounding California, as well as of the huge number of visitors to the area, some of them no doubt reckoning the Museum among their main reasons for travelling to the area. Those of us who have not visited the collection can still gain a...