They’re stuck. Getting humans out isn’t easy, but getting the art out is virtually impossible. The Getty says the museum is the safest place possible to be during a fire, and I for one believe it.

THE J Paul Getty Museum houses Vincent van Gogh’s Irises ... So where did the Getty staff take the art for safekeeping as flames and smoke approached? Nowhere. The Getty itself, its president ...

Museum officials and outside experts concur, the Getty—and big, well-funded institutions like it—are probably the safest place for art through any type of natural disaster. But that does not ...