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What a lovely post! Just a little L.A. background: When the villa was recreated in Malibu it was reviled by quite a few people. They were used to seeing antiquities as "old" and battered. But the Getty Villa was not old ... it was built to replicate a "new" villa, as it would have been when it was just built. The columns are new, not damaged; the gardens are green; the murals are fresh and vivid, not faded. It is a gem. I'm sorry that the Getty appears to be putting it out to pasture or, at the very least, restricting it to a favored few. If I was a visitor to L.A. and not a full time dweller, I would ask for a tour.