The Getty Museum (http://getty.edu) proves that you can throw obscene gobs of money at art acquisitions and museum-building and come up with some pretty cool results. High on a hill over the 405 Freeway in LA, it houses the contemporary (i.e., not antiquities) collection of the J. Paul Getty collection. It is well worth a visit when in the area.
The campus itself is damned impressive. The collection, both permanent and visiting, is very, very nice. The pix here (an eclectic mix themselves) are about half what I took. Many others (esp. of teh grounds) were with my "real" camera which is, sadly, more difficult to post from. Those pix will go online eventually.
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I love that place. The architecture is amazing and the collection is incredible.
The Getty Villa in Malibu is also well worth the visit.
I went about 20 years ago and the architecture is outstanding. So glad you got to go
+Colm Buckley The Villa is definitely my fave, both for setting and for content. We were last there three or four years ago, and it may be getting time for a return visit. But the main museum is definitely worth dropping by, as much for the campus and its views as the collection.