Visitors to the Getty Center are about to say goodbye to the museum’s familiar arrival routine, and hello to a dramatic new front door designed to completely transform the way millions of people experience one of LA’s most iconic cultural landmarks.
The Getty Center has unveiled fresh details about a sweeping modernization project that will shut down the famed hilltop museum for roughly a year beginning in March 2027, with a grand reopening planned ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics.
At the heart of the overhaul is a radical redesign of the museum’s entrance sequence — the first thing visitors encounter after arriving at the Brentwood campus.
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