Programs & Events

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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.

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Free
Free

Boston Family Days - October 12, 2025

Free with Boston Family Day Pass

Boston school-aged students and two guests can gain free admission to participating institutions on the first two Sundays of each month by showing their Program Pass.  

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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. 

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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.  

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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.

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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.
 

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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. 

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

Member Opening Celebration

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

Celebrate our new exhibitions—Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory, Visions of Black Madonnas, and Robert T. Freeman: Allan Crite—American Griot, 2025—while enjoying a glass of wine and a welcome from the curator.

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Public Programs

Allan Rohan Crite: The Dean of African American Art in New England

Join us in conversation to celebrate the life and legacy of artist and civic leader Allan Rohan Crite, who prolifically documented the daily life of Black Bostonians with profound care and optimism. 

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Art Making, Public Programs, Free October 25, 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.