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Perched on a hilltop above the city and reached by its own driverless tram, the Getty Center is a museum and cultural campus as celebrated for its architecture and setting as for the art within. Opened in 1997 and clad in pale travertine stone and glass, the complex commands sweeping views across Los Angeles to the ocean and the mountains, and admission to it is free. The center was made possible by the vast endowment of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, whose fortune funds one of the wealthiest a...