The Getty Museum is recorded as a memorable stop during a Los Angeles visit on September 21, 1978. The diary singles out a reproduction of a building in Italy that had not yet been excavated, making the museum visit notable for an encounter with architecture whose location was known but whose remains lay beneath another building.

Visit in Los Angeles

The visit is described as thrilling. Alongside the museum experience, the diarist bought a book on painting for $17, a small but concrete record of the day’s interest in art.

A Building Beneath Another Building

The reproduction represented a structure whose site was known, though archaeologists had not excavated it because another building stood above it. The diary offers no further detail about the structure or the display; its distinctive image is of an inaccessible past made visible through a reproduction.