Getty Research Institute

The Getty Research Institute exists to bring together all the resources and activities required to advance understanding of the visual arts taken in their widest possible significance.

• Our foundation lies in the special collections of original documents and objects from the Renaissance to the present, paralleled by a superb general art library, both of them growing according to the changing needs of researchers.
• The international residential scholar program each year brings together some of the best minds from all disciplines, including creative artists, to address and debate themes of particular intellectual urgency.
• Publications, both print and electronic, disseminate the work of the Institute and foster innovative research wherever it is found.
• The databases we produce—dedicated to the highest standards of completeness, accuracy, and technical sophistication—provide essential resources for researchers, librarians, and museum professionals all over the world.
• Cataloging tools, digital collections, and personal assistance ensure the best access to information for our resident and extended communities.
• Exhibitions, conferences, workshops, and lectures give compelling expression to innovative scholarship and thought.

Each of these functions guides and sustains all the others, an institutional transparency physically embodied in the remarkable circular architecture of our building.

The work of the Research Institute takes its place within the collaborative context of the Getty Center as a whole, which includes the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the international projects and research of the Conservation Institute, and the philanthropic outreach of the Getty Foundation.Sr Info Sys Architect. Co-chair of digital preservation work group.