Twenty years ago, the magnificent Getty Center opened in Los Angeles

Los Angeles/Prague - One of the richest and most modern museums in the world is the Los Angeles Getty Center, opened on December 16, 1997. The magnificent complex was created according to the plans of the famous architect Richard Meier, a Pritzker Prize winner, and its construction, which began in 1984, cost an astronomical 1.3 billion dollars. Meier used natural stone, white plaster, large glass surfaces, and steel beams in the design of the building in a modernist style.

The new complex, which spans an area of 48 hectares and consists of six buildings converging into the shape of a large ypsilon, houses collections of modern and contemporary art, including popular impressionists, from the collection founded by oil magnate Paul Getty. The patron, who was considered one of the richest people in the world at the time of his death in 1976, also bequeathed most of his fortune in stocks to the museum (amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars), allowing it to thrive exceptionally well to this day.