Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Art Museum · Boston, Massachusetts
A Venetian palazzo built in the Fenway in 1903 by a collector who arranged every object in it herself and then wrote a will requiring that the arrangement never change. It is four storeys around a glass-roofed courtyard planted with flowers year round, hung with Titian, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Botticelli and Sargent in rooms with no labels. In March 1990 two men in police uniform talked their way in and took thirteen works. THE EMPTY FRAMES ARE STILL ON THE WALLS, because the will does not permit them to be moved.
25 Evans Way, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States
Open most days with timed entry; CLOSED TUESDAYS. Book online ahead — capacity is limited and tickets sell out at weekends and during the spring nasturtium display. Under-18s free; anyone named Isabella enters free for life with ID. Free gallery talks daily, included with admission. Photography is restricted in the galleries.
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