Roman sculptors would sometimes deliberately design their statues with removable heads that "popped out" at the neck.

Roman sculptors sometimes designed statues with removable heads. Kenneth Lapatin, antiquities curator at the J. Paul Getty ...

And in room 108 stands a 1,900-year-old statue of Hercules, a real alpha-male figure that reputedly inspired Getty to built the museum in the design of a Roman villa. Upstairs, room 217 holds an ...

the museum opened in 1974 as a replica of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum (located in what is now southern Italy). The Getty Vila is home to more than 44,000 objects dedicated to ancient art, per ...