Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

When she joined the Gardner Museum, our Director Peggy Fogelman asked herself a question — “who was the public to whom Isabella bequeathed her Museum? Was Boston around 1900 anything like the Boston we know today? What civic issues did Isabella care about and how might that inform the Museum’s future?” It is the privilege and responsibility of every Gardner Museum director to interpret Isabella’s legacy for a new era and new generations of Bostonians, to ensure its relevance and sustainability in a changing society. This can be uniquely challenging in a museum that cannot collect and cannot rearrange the works of art within its historic galleries. 🔗 Read Peggy Fogelman's reflections on the legacy of the Museum’s founder, who was ahead of her time, and continues to inspire in more ways than she could have imagined. → https://lnkd.in/ejbuxkFc . . . #isabellastewartgardner #gardnermuseum

To celebrate all of you who demonstrated your own civic leadership by voting, and to provide a place of joy, respite, and connection during a stressful election season, we are offering free general admission to the community on Tomorrow, November 6, the day after Election 2024. Come enjoy magnificent works of art, the ever-flowering Courtyard, and a welcome sense of community! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eiY2893j

🌻 Garden of Poppies, John Appleton Brown (about 1891) American landscape painter John Appleton Brown (1844-1902) was a prominent and successful Boston artist. He worked predominantly in oil and pastels, and is best known for his tender and delicate depictions of the natural world. 🔎: On Display in the Yellow Room _________________________ 🖼️: John Appleton Brown (Massachusetts, 1844 - 1902, New York) Garden of Poppies, about 1891.

⭐ Free Admission Nov 6th⭐ Disconnect from the news cycle and take a moment to relax, reflect, and explore in a place of joy and connection. Enjoy magnificent works of art, the ever-flowering Courtyard, and a welcome sense of community! The Gardner Museum will be offering free general admission on Wednesday, November 6, the day after Election 2024. Online reservations are full, but some walk-up tickets will be available at the door. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gfPZNHZj

"Election Day can be an anxiety-inducing experience no matter who you’re voting for," notes WBUR. "What better way to process complicated emotions than in the sprawling garden of a Venetian-style palazzo?" On November 6th, the Gardner Museum is offering free general admission to celebrate those exercising civic leadership by voting in the presidential election and those in need of a moment of peace, reflection, and community. Join us! https://lnkd.in/eDssabzu

🔎 Searching for Answers: Isabella’s Native American Basket #insidethecollection Tucked away in the Macknight Room is one of only two Indigenous North American objects in the Gardner Museum: a decorated, woven basket from the Pacific Northwest. Originally, all that was known about it was that Isabella acquired it sometime before 1924. With the help of leaders and experts from Tribal Cultural Centers and Councils, researchers specializing in Native American art from several museums, a high-powered microscope, and fiber experts, our Conservation and Collections staff set out to uncover more information about its origin and history. What they found answered some questions—and raised several more. 🔗Discover the full story: https://lnkd.in/e8Bhfjgn ___________ 📷: Fiber sample under magnification, 200x, transmitted light. 🧺: Native American, possibly Makah, Quinault, or Quileute, Basket, 19th century. Woven grass and cedar bark, 5.4 x 10.5 cm (2 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.)

🐦⬛Happy Halloween! 🎃 Get spooky with Isabella's special copy of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, with illustrations by Edouard Manet! 🔎 Read the full poem and its accompanying lithographs: bit.ly/2PqWj8m ______ 📘: Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, 1809 - 1849, Baltimore) The Raven [Le corbeau], 1875

🎃 Happy Halloween! Check out this perfectly spooky illustration from a letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from her friend Joseph Lindon Smith. If this were a New Yorker cartoon, how would you caption it? __ 🦴: Joseph Lindon Smith, Illustrated note to Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Ludlow, Trinity Terrace, Boston (Detail), 2 January 1897. Ink on paper.

🎻🎺🎵 Ring in the holiday season with music in the Gardner Museum Courtyard. Tickets are on sale now. On Wednesday, December 4, from 6-9pm, the Courtyard will come alive with music celebrating a variety of cultures’ winter traditions. Stroll through the galleries, enjoy a special cocktail menu at Cafe G, and delight in the jubilant spirit of the season. 🔗 Purchase your tickets→https://lnkd.in/eG3jTJ7P

A hidden gem with Imperial significance that you might miss, but shouldn’t 🐢 This crane and turtle box was designed and produced to be given to guests at the imperial banquet for the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of the Meiji Emperor and Empress in 1894. Aside from two others in private collections, all examples of this bonbonnière are in the collection of the Japanese Imperial Household. 🔗 Discover the story behind this box—and how it became part of Isabella's collection: https://lnkd.in/eDH59QuJ