Getty Museum is continuing its digital exhibition offerings, which is great for us in New Zealand wanting to explore what’s on offer without making a big trip! Here is a selection of this month’s showcases:
Hidden in plain sight
Through the Getty Conservation Institute’s project African American Historic Places, Los Angeles, graduate internship participants gain more than hands-on experience—they develop a deeper understanding of cultural heritage and its preservation.
Here’s how interns Tahlor Cleveland and Lauren O’Brien are helping to honor and preserve Los Angeles’s Black heritage.
Getty announces landmark gift for K–12 school visit program
The Mia Chandler Endowment for School Visits will support free transportation for Title I and equivalent schools for student visits to the Getty Center and Getty Villa.
New podcast episode!
If Objects Could Talk, the newest series from Getty Podcasts, artifacts leave the museum vault and come alive to share their side of the story.
In this week’s episode, a feet-shaped lamp with a great sense of humor talks about how ancient houses were designed and lit in a time before you could just flip a switch.
Listen to “Light on Your Feet”
Discover how this podcast helps kids prepare for their next museum visit
Oedipus enters his Elvis era
The Troubadour Theater Company makes comedic connections between a Greek tragedy and a rock ‘n’ roll legend in Oedipus the King, Mama!
Over the boulevard and onto your shoulder
A new collaboration between eco-conscious fashion designer Peder Cho and the Museum Store turns Getty’s giant vinyl banners into wearable art.
Silly stories from inside the museum
An antiquities museum can feel like a very serious place—especially for parents of young children.
“What if they get bored?”
“What will we talk about?”
All valid questions. The stars of a new Getty podcast may have the answer.
Listen to the first episodes of If Objects Could Talk
How to make dendrite art
George Sand’s dendrite artwork Landscape with Rocks is featured in the exhibition Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking at the Getty Museum through September 14.
What is dendrite art? To explore the concept, editor Stacy Suaya took on the challenge of making one herself.
An exhibition for kids
How about one more museum visit before summer is a distant memory?
Wired for Wonder, an exhibition at Kidspace created in collaboration with Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide, has a tasting bar and a smell-o-phone.
And it closes in just two weeks.
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Once a year, the sound of the drum and intertribal dancers echoes through the Getty Center’s museum courtyard as part of an annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day event.
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day is one of Getty’s most popular and well-attended family events, drawing up to 1,000 attendees.
This year, the Getty Research Institute is partnering with The Chapter House and Jana Schmieding to host a meaningful and memorable community gathering.
Making a Getty podcast
We talked with podcast producer Zoe about the making of a new show for families, If Objects Could Talk.
This series dives into the secret lives of some of the museum’s more obscure ancient artworks—from a snake bracelet to an owl coin to a lamp in the shape of feet—for an entertaining and educational look into the ancient world, told by the objects themselves.
Listen to the latest episode: “Schooled by a Fish”
Pilgrimage Road
In Pilgrimage Road, a 1980s-style computer game created by Getty curators and digital producers, you can find out how you’d fare on an arduous road trip, facing hazards like river crossings, bandits, and illness.
Visitors can play the game on a kiosk in the Getty Center exhibition Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages through November 30, 2025.