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View of the couryard in midsummer
Large image of an African American man with white hair holding a paint pallet in one hand with an assortment of people circled around him.
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A room with European old-master paintings, sculpture, and furniture arranged eclectically. The lower half of the image shows a line of chairs, all upholstered in matching floral damask.
A red textile wall with a large Titian painting and two tables and a chair on the floor.
Blue fabric wall with several paintings and a display case on the floor.
A red velvet wall with paintings and furniture in front of it.
A room with wooden beams, stained glass, decorative tiles with a portrait in the center of the image.
A large wall made up of glass panels.
Escape the Ordinary at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
In 1903, Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her museum “for the education and enjoyment of the public forever.”
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2025 Exhibitions

Fall Exhibitions: October 23–January 19, 2026

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A Black woman in a blue dress is seated with a child on either side in front of a flat blue background.
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Infrared Imaging of a Painting by Allan Rohan Crite

Allan Rohan Crite’s painting of a mother and children belonging to the Museum of African American History has more than one story to tell.

Looking over a person's shoulder while they work on an art project
Art Making

Saturday Open Studios

November 1, 2025

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.  

Painting of buildings in a city neighborhood being knocked down and burned
Public Program

“The Street is Memory”: Resisting Boston’s Urban Removal

November 13, 2025

Join us as we discuss the complexities of urban renewal and how community trusts and individuals are striving to preserve and protect Boston’s diverse neighborhoods.  

A copy of the book Gardner's Eden standing upright on a stone pillar in the courtyard.
Public Program

Gardner’s Eden: A Conversation & Book Signing

November 20, 2025

Discover how Gardner’s Eden, one of the Museum’s newest publications—and a work of art in its own right—by Artist-in-Residence James Prosek came to life during this intimate conversation and book signing. 

Group of visitors looking at a painting by Titian while a docent speaks
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