Getty launches museum mindfulness meditation podcast
Getty launched OMMM, its first video podcast, with Lilit Sadoyan guiding a 12-part meditation series that begins with Van Gogh’s Irises.
Getty launched OMMM: Our Museum Mindfulness Meditation on August 3, adding a museum-made meditation podcast to a crowded field of generic mindfulness audio. The project is Getty’s first video podcast, and the first episode of the 12-part series centers on Vincent van Gogh’s Irises, a choice that gives the practice a clear visual anchor instead of another blank-space breathing track.
The format is built for listeners who want meditation to fit into ordinary time. Podnews described the show as a meditation podcast focused on creating mindful interactions with artwork from Getty’s collection, and identified Getty gallery educator Lilit Sadoyan as the host. That makes OMMM less like a voice-led wellness product and more like a guided encounter with an object, which may appeal to people who find open-ended mindfulness prompts too abstract.
Getty’s own podcast pages have already placed OMMM among featured episodes, and Apple Podcasts lists an introductory episode titled Introducing OMMM: Our Museum Mindfulness Meditation Podcast. The show’s official framing, paired with Getty’s location at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, gives the series a specific institutional atmosphere that most meditation apps cannot match. The appeal is not just that the audio is free to play anywhere, but that it comes with the cultural weight of a major museum and a collection that listeners can imagine even if they never visit in person.
That brand identity matters because mindfulness listeners often sort audio by trust as much as by tone. Getty has been building in this direction for a while, with prior programming under the Mindfulness in the Museum name and related podcast episodes such as Mindfulness in the Museum: Lessons from a Meditation Guide and Mindfulness in the Museum: Healing through Mindfulness. OMMM reads as an extension of that work, not a sudden experiment.
For readers deciding whether to press play, the strongest case is practical: try it when you want a shorter, art-based session that trades generic affirmations for looking, noticing, and slowing down. It seems best suited to a commute, a lunch break, or the stretch before sleep, when a museum voice and a painting can do more than another anonymous meditation loop. Getty’s bet is simple enough to hear in the first episode: art can hold attention long enough for mindfulness to feel concrete.
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