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Welcome to Porter College’s virtual scavenger hunt series!  Our first scavenger hunt in the series was in J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles  Our second is a scavenger hunt in the Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdamm

Follow this link to our J. Paul Getty Museum scavenger hunt

 

 

Below is a scavenger hunt designed to follow the Google Arts & Culture Tour of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. 

About the Getty Museum: The Getty Museum is the legacy of American billionaire, John Paul Getty. In the later years of his life, Getty undertook the role of amassing a collection of art that could be shared with the public. In 1954, the first of his collection opened to the public in his Malibu ranch house. After his death in 1976, he left a majority of his fortune to the J Paul Getty Trust. In the 1980’s the trust began working on the Getty Center, a six building structure in Los Angeles, where the collection currently resides. The project was finished in 1998 and has become a prominent landmark for the city of LA.

Getty Museum Los Angeles  Getty Villa in Malibu Ca.

 

Please read all of the guidelines before beginning the scavenger hunt.

Guidelines

Access: There are two different ways to access the collection, the first is a virtual tour, the second is a slide show of the collection. 

  1. The Virtual Tour: This tour explores the inside of the Getty in the same structure of a street view in Google Maps, to move around the museum simply click and drag or just click around the museum to move from place to place. This museum is also two stories, and you can travel between them by clicking on the one or two in the right hand corner of your screen. Please note that if you go through the museum virtually you will be unable to see the placards next to each piece of art. To access this tour click the link above, and then click the yellow figure in the right hand corner.  Here's a video "how to" guide! 
  2. Slide Show: This view of the collection is a slide show. This option allows you to see the specific details of a piece, with both information about the work and a zoom feature that allows you to see all the details of the work. To access the slide show click the link above and scroll down to the “In this Collection” section of the webpage. From here you can view the collection by most popular, when it was made, or the color pallet of the piece.

 

Items: There are two types of items in this scavenger hunt: Lost and Found, and Interactive

    • Lost and Found Items are things you are trying to find within the museum. These items are open to interpretation, and no two answers will be alike. Each Lost and Found Item is 5 points each, for a total of 100 points.
    • Interactive Items are specific tasks that involve both finding an item in the museum and then altering the image to fit the description. The number of points for each varies.

Submitting Items: For each item you complete, you can submit an image through our Discord channel or through email at porter_activities@ucsc.edu. No one beside the Porter Activities Office staff will be able to see your submissions on the Discord channel.

Points: Points can be accumulated as you submit each item you complete. We (The Porter Activities Office) will keep track of the amount of points each person has received through the Discord channel submissions, and through your email submissions.

Prizes: Once you complete the scavenger hunt, we will tally up your points. There are 200 total possible points to score. Once we tally up your points, we will send you an email, or a message on Discord, to let you know what points you finished with, and what prizes you will receive. 

1-50 points: One custom limited edition Porter coloring page, and one custom limited edition Porter Zoom background.

51-100 points: Two custom limited edition Porter coloring pages, and two custom limited edition Porter Zoom backgrounds.

101-150 points: A limited edition Porter Postcard sent to your current address! We will confirm your address before sending.

151-200 points: A Porter Virtual Scavenger Hunt Patch sent to your current address, as well as receiving a custom color role in our Discord server. 

Weekly, we will be spotlighting our Staff’s favorite submissions from the Lost and Found and Interactive portions of the Scavenger Hunt on Porter Activities’ social media.

Lost and Found:  

Lost and Found is an exploration activity. As you go through the collection, your goal is to find a piece that you think best suits the item, take a photo of the piece and share it within the Discord chat. For this challenge we ask you to explore the content of the museum. These items do not follow any order, and your answer can be any piece from the museum. You may even find multiple of the same item, but please only share one for your answer. 5 points each.

  1. Is that Hank the Turkey?
  2. Which deity is that?
  3. That golden decor would clash horribly with your dorm room walls!
  4. Holy cow! Why are there so many cows???
  5. Who let the dogs out? Who?
  6. Working women run the world!
  7. Pink really is their color
  8. You’re lion if you don’t see the details in this furniture
  9. What a beautiful sunset!
  10. Well dinner didn’t go as planned
  11. Dragons? Dragons!
  12. Don’t these guys belong in the ocean?
  13. That’s a lot of candles!
  14. Oh jeez, food doesn’t go on the floor… 5 second rule?
  15. That has to be getting heavy…
  16. What a “cheep” looking chair!
  17. An x-ray that nailed it
  18. What a tree!
  19. Men really love their red capes
  20. The google camera person :)

Interactive:

Interactive items are specific tasks. You can explore the museum any way that you wish to find these items. The final product of each item should follow the guidelines of the task. 

  1. You can’t sit there! That is a piece of art! Or… find a chair you are not supposed to sit in, and show yourself sitting in the chair. 15 points
  2. Normally you can sit there, but today that couch is a work of art. Or… find a place that you can sit, and make it into a work of art that the museum would kick you out for sitting on. 15 points
  3. I swear I saw a few characters from ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in the furniture exhibits. Let’s see you can spot any. 10 points 
  4. The original painting was good, but maybe your design would be better. Using any form of drawing and coloring equipment redo your favorite painting from the second floor. 10 points
  5. Create the next big meme to blow up on social media using a painting or sculpture from the display. 10 points
  6. Sammy the slug? What are you doing in an 18th century European painting? 10 points
  7. What is this? A crossover episode? Incorporate a picture of yourself, your pet, your family, your friends, or figure from pop culture into a painting 10 points
  8. Complete the Getty “Between Art and Quarantine” Challenge! This challenge asks you to recreate a piece from the collection using everyday objects around your house. To earn points for this challenge you must submit it to the Discord Channel. You can also post it on social media with the tag #betweenartandquarantine but you will only receive points if you submit the image to us. Here are the Getty’s instructions on how to complete the challenge: http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/getty-artworks-recreated-with-household-items-by-creative-geniuses-the-world-over/ points 20

 

 Map of the Getty Museum in West LA