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The Book of Marvels at The Getty Center
Exhibition
The Book of Marvels: Wonder and Fear in the Middle Ages
11 Jun 2024 – 25 Aug 2024
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:30
Address
- 1200 Getty Center Drive
- Los Angeles
California - 90049
- United States
Event map
About
This exhibition explores the Book of the Marvels of the World, an illuminated manuscript made in the 1460s that weaves together tales of places both near and far. Told from the perspective of a medieval armchair traveler in northern France, the global locations are portrayed as bizarre, captivating, and sometimes dangerously different. Additional objects in the exhibition highlight how the overlapping sensations of wonder and fear helped create Western stereotypes of the “other” that still endure today.
This exhibition is presented in English and Spanish
