Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a Boston art museum founded by collector Isabella Stewart Gardner. Its collection is displayed in a Venetian-inspired building organized around an enclosed courtyard.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft: The 1990 theft of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Thieves stole works from the museum’s galleries, leaving empty frames that remain on display.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will: The testamentary document establishing conditions for the museum’s collection and its continued presentation. Gardner’s will instructed that the collection remain arranged as she left it.
American art collecting: The acquisition and preservation of artworks by individuals and institutions in the United States. Gardner’s collection reflects the private collecting culture that shaped American museums.
Art theft: The unlawful taking of artworks from collections, galleries, or other locations. The Gardner case became one of the best-known unsolved art thefts.
The Concert (Vermeer): A painting by Johannes Vermeer depicting three musicians in an interior. It is among the works stolen from the museum and remains missing.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum galleries: Rooms in the museum displaying artworks and objects in an arrangement devised by Gardner. The galleries preserve her room-by-room installation rather than following a conventional chronological scheme.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum founding: The creation of the Boston museum by Isabella Stewart Gardner in the early twentieth century. Its founding transformed Gardner’s private collection into a public institution.
Federal Bureau of Investigation art crime program: A U.S. government program investigating crimes involving cultural property and artworks. The FBI investigated the museum theft and continues to seek information about the missing works.
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee: A painting by Rembrandt depicting Christ and his disciples in a storm-tossed boat. The stolen painting was Rembrandt’s only known seascape.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum conservation: The care and study of artworks and historic interiors at the museum. Conservators balance preserving fragile works with maintaining Gardner’s prescribed display.

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