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DRIVEN GETTY MUSEUM Getty Center Museum: The centerpieces of the 110 acres complex is the museum and its collections of pre- 20th century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, decorative arts and photographs. In 1945, J. Paul Getty purchased a site just above Pacific Coast Highway and began to use its "Ranch House" as both a residence and a space for the display of his personal art collection. By 1953, the growth of his collection, then primarily Greek and Roman antiquities, prompted Mr. Getty to add a wing to the Ranch House dedicated to the exhibition of his works of art and to establish the J. Paul Getty Museum. In the late 1960s, Mr. Getty decided to recreate a first-century Roman country house—based on the plans of the ancient Villa dei Papiri just outside of Herculaneum—as a separate museum on the property. The museum opened to the public in 1974 and began to enjoy world renown. This building, now called the Getty Villa, served as the museum's sole location until it closed in the summer of 1997 in preparation for the opening of the new museum at the Getty Center in December 1997. Part of this text is from www.getty.edu/museum for more information please visit the museum home page getty museum TRASL.A.DO