Los Angeles – Getty Museum

Los Angeles will be the cultural capital of the millenium. “This statement was recently made by LA’s vice-president of cultural tourism who then went on to state that there are more majour musseums per head of population in LA than in other US city (300 to be precise), not to mention “more artists, writers, film-maker, actors, dancers and musicians than in any other city in the history of civilisation”. His conclusion? ‘ LA is the most fascinating cultural destiantion of America.’

If LA can claim to be a cultural mecca, it’s because of the Getty Museum. THis fine-art museum looks down from a Santa Monica hilltrop over the city, a monument to culture.
Three milion peoplevisited the Getty in its first year.

The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs. The Villa houses approximately 44,000 works of art from the Museum’s extensive collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities, of which over 1,200 are on view.
They come in the same coaches that take them to Disneyland and Beverly Hills.
Almost immediately it has become part of the LA tour-an art museum that rivals Universal Studios, Hollywood and the Baywatch beaches.