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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opened on New Year's Day, 1903. For more than a century this Boston museum has contained one of the nation's finest collections of art. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has remained essentially unchanged since its founder's death in 1924. The museum is built to evoke a 15th-century Venetian palace, with 3 floors of galleries filled with paintings, sculpture, tapestries, furniture, and decorative arts from cultures spanning 30 centuries. These galleries surround a lovely garden courtyard, making the museum one of the most impressive of all Boston attractions.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art collection includes works that rank among the most significant of their kind in the entire world. The exquisitely displayed collections comprise more than 2,500 objects, including paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles, drawings, silver, ceramics, illuminated manuscripts, rare books and photographs. The museum also contains letters and manuscripts from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world and 19th-century France and America. |
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