The Getty Villa museum in Pacific Palisades has a "state-of-the-art" air handling system to seal off its galleries and archives from wildfire smoke.

The museum, part of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is home to the organization's collection of Ancient Greek and Roman art. Other cultural centers in the area were also threatened by the fire, which had burned more than 2,900 acres as of Wednesday morning and was moving quickly.

A video of the grounds of a private estate in flames during the Palisades wildfire in Los Angeles has been miscaptioned as showing the nearby Getty Villa in social media posts, some of which also baselessly link the art institution to child trafficking and satanism.

The Getty Villa activated its emergency operations center at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, and within two hours, the fast-moving blaze had reached the grounds. Here's how the staff, museum and precious art were kept safe.

The Getty Villa, located in the Pacific Palisades, will remain closed until further notice. While the grounds were damaged by the fire, the collection's art has remained safe. “The Getty Center and Getty Villa remain safe from the Palisades Fire ...

The Getty Villa remained standing as fires razed homes around it. Getty staff have been doing simple yard work all year that homeowners should follow.

The Getty — with its multibillion-dollar endowment — has emerged as a beacon of fire preparedness as deadly blazes have razed swaths of Los Angeles.

Getty Facilities Director Mike Rogers says the Getty Villa is safe along with its collection and pieces. The Getty Villa extended its closure to next week amid the Palisades Fire. The Getty Museum in Brentwood will also be closed through at least Sunday,

The renowned Getty Center and Getty Villa remain 'safe and stable,' as the surrounding evacuation orders have been downgraded to warnings.

Flames made it to within 6 feet of the Getty Villa and yet it survived. Inside the museum’s powerful tools for disaster preparedness.

Established in 1954 by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, 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 the Los Angeles Times, including Roman, Greek, and Etruscan antiquities.

The Brentwood Getty Center was put under an evacuation order on Friday, while The villa, located in the Pacific Palisades, has been in an evacuation zone for days. The Palisades fire pushed eastward on Friday, prompting officials to expand mandatory evacuation orders into an area that encompasses the center.