Programs & Events

Learn about programs, tours, events, & more

Aged yellow and blue tiles.
Art Making, Public Programs September 27, 2025

Saturday Open Studios

Free with Museum Admission

Stop by the Bertucci Education Studio and join us to design a ceramic tile inspired by works in Isabella’s collection.

Four adults holding string instruments looking directly at the viewer
Music & Concerts Weekend Concert Series

Catalyst String Quartet

The Catalyst String Quartet returns to the Gardner with works by Joseph Bologne, Dora Pejačević, and Beethoven.

 

Several people standing around the edge of the courtyard, smiling and laughing
Free
Free, Art Making, Public Programs, Music & Concerts

Free First Thursday - October

Join us at the Gardner as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month on this Free First Thursday filled with mariachi music, Columbian-inspired art-making, and the warmth of community and conversation.

18 Musicans lined up, holding string instruments and one musicial in a separate photo on the lower righ, holding a string instrument.
Music & Concerts Weekend Concert Series

Sphinx Virtuosi

with Sterling Elliott, cello

Sphinx Virtuosi return to the Gardner Museum with works from across the Americas including two Boston premieres and the return of the wonderful American cellist Sterling Elliott after his triumph last season.

 

View of a statue in the distance surrounded by flowers in the courtyard
Public Programs

Botanical Talk & Tour - October 8, 2025

Space is limited

Join a member of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum horticulture staff for a presentation about the role of plants at the Museum, past and present, followed by an hour-long guided experience through the galleries.

A woman with four children sitting on a bench by the Courtyard
Free
Public Programs, Free, Art Making, Music & Concerts

Indigenous Peoples' Day: Interwoven

Free Admission is Generously Supported By Linda Cabot And Ed Anderson

Join us as we acknowledge and honor Indigenous wisdom and traditions that strengthen communities. 

Looking over a person's shoulder while they work on an art project
Art Making, Public Programs, Free October 18, 2025

Saturday Open Studios

Free with Museum Admission

Join us in the Bertucci Education Studio as we gather memories of our neighborhoods through texture rubbings in an activity designed by Polly Thayer Starr Visiting Artist crystal bi. Open Studios are free with Museum admission and participation is on a first-come, first-served basis.  

A young woman standing outside holding a violin under her chin and a man sitting by a piano
Music & Concerts Weekend Concert Series

Miranda Cuckson & Blair McMillen

A musician's musician, the great Miranda Cuckson comes to the Gardner Museum with a program that comprises nearly two hundred years of violin music, from Beethoven to the Jamaican-British Alberga.

A parade of African American musicians march down a street with African American residents with people watching from the windows of adjacent brownstone buildings
Patrons Only
Patron Events Fall 2025 Exhibitions

Friends of Fenway Court Patron Preview

Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory; Visions of Black Madonnas; and Robert T. Freeman: Allan Crite - American Griot, 2025

Patrons enjoy early access to the upcoming Fall exhibitions before they open to the public.
 

Painting of African American school girls with school uniforms and some moms at the end of the school day
Members Only
Member Events Fall 2025 Exhibitions

Member Preview Day

Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory; Visions of Black Madonnas; and Robert T. Freeman: Allan Crite - American Griot, 2025

Members enjoy early access before the exhibitions open to the public.