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  Location within Boston | |
Former name | Fenway Court |
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| Established | 1903 |
| Location | 25 Evans Way Boston, MA 02115 |
| Coordinates | 42°20′19″N 71°5′56″W / 42.33861°N 71.09889°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Accreditation | American Alliance of Museums |
| Founder | Isabella Stewart Gardner |
| Director | Peggy Fogelman |
| Public transit access |  Green Line (E branch) Museum of Fine Arts  |
| Website | gardnermuseum.org |
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | |
 Gardner Museum in 2012, original building at right | |
| Built | 1896–1903 |
| Architect | Willard T. Sears[1] |
| NRHP reference No. | 83000603[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 27, 1983 |
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. It was founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner, whose will called for her art collection to be permanently exhibited "for the education and enjoyment of the public forever."
The museum opened in 1903. An auxiliary wing designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, adjacent to the original structure near the Back Bay Fens, was completed in 2012.[2][3]
In 1990, thirteen of the museum's works were stolen; the crime remains unsolved, and the works, valued at an estimated $500 million, have not been recovered.
- ^ a b "National Register of Historical Places: Massachusetts (MA), Suffolk County". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 11, 2007.
- ^ Southworth, Susan and Southworth, Michael (1992) The AIA Guide to Boston (2nd ed.) Chester, Connecticut: Globe Pequot. p. 340-342. ISBN 0-87106-188-0
- ^ "About: New Meets Old" Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum website