Established in 1954 by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, the museum opened in 1974 as a replica of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum (located in what is now southern Italy). The Getty Vila is home to more than 44,000 objects dedicated to ancient art, per the Los Angeles Times, including Roman, Greek, and Etruscan antiquities.

As the more than 2,900-acre Palisades Fire burns, the Getty Villa Museum, a cultural landmark in Southern California along Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades, is under threat. Keaton Osborn, who witnessed homes and nearby structures burn from the rapidly moving wildfire,