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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, United States.
About Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. It was founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner, whose will called for her art collection to be permanently exhibited "for the education and enjoyment of the public forever."
The museum opened in 1903. An auxiliary wing designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, adjacent to the original structure near the Back Bay Fens, was completed in 2012.
In 1990, thirteen of the museum's works were stolen; the crime remains unsolved, and the works, valued at an estimated $500 million, have not been recovered.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by the numbers
- Founded
- 1903
Plan your visit
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- Website
- www.gardnermuseum.org
Moments held at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist (1990) In the early hours of March 18, 1990, two men disguised as police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum after claiming to respond to a disturbance. They restrained the guards and stole 13 works,. The theft permanently changed museum-security discourse and left some of the world's most famous unrecovered artworks missing.
- Fenway Court Privately Opens (1903) Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum, then known as Fenway Court, privately opened in Boston with a grand celebration. Gardner had spent years forming a major collection and, after her husband Jack Gardner's death, built a. The museum became an influential model of the collector-founded historic house museum.
Museums near Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- Art Museum Museum of Fine Arts Boston Boston, United States
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- Art Museum Boston Athenæum Boston, United States
- Art Museum Fogg Museum Cambridge, United States
- Art Museum Peabody Essex Museum Salem, United States
- Addison Gallery of American Art Andover, United States
