How Katherine Fleming saved the Getty Museum’s treasures from the Los Angeles fires

«Art is safe, and so are we. » The form is signed by Katherine Fleming, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Foundation and Museums in Los Angeles. From January 7 until this week, she will have spent her days and nights ensuring the safety of tens of thousands of works of art that constitute the most extraordinary private treasure in the United States.

Flames from the fires licked the exterior walls of one of those buildings, the Getty Villa, but no more. Katherine Fleming told a journalist from Wall Street Journal, Kelly Crow, art market expert, that she immediately opened the entire irrigation network of the estate, modified the air treatment in the corridors, museum rooms and libraries, preventing the penetration of less flame, especially since the double walls provide additional protection for the collections. The center has a reservoir of 4 million liters of water.

The Getty Center, 15th among American museums

Katherine Fleming planned…