Innenhof im Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston, MA [OC]
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Innenhof im Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston, MA [OC]
Von: whatsaphoto
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Love that museum so eclectically beautiful!
The rest of the building rivals this amazing space! 10/10 recommend!!
Free admission if you are named Isabella. Also site to one of the biggest art heists in history.
I am GOING to see the nasturtium next year!
Looks great! Reminds me of Kresgie Court at the DIA in Detroit, but with more greenery.
Watched the video on their site, this room kills these plants. They need to grow them off site and change the flowering plants multiple times per month ðŸ˜.
Thanks for sharing this gorgeous place though! Never seen anything like it.
I adore this museum. Went 20 years ago. It still has left such an impression
If you ever have the opportunity, give yourself the gift of a visit. It’s right around the corner from the Boston MFA – same T stop.
This magnificent jumble is the result of her will stipulating that her home could be turned into a museum – only if they didn’t MOVE anything. So nothing is separated into categories, locations, or time periods, or collections, as they would be in a more formal museum.
Some of it is the sort of thing that gives museum conservators apoplexy, like the Renaissance laces right next to a big sunny window. The compromise was to cover the display case with a piece of heavy black velvet, which the viewer can lift to see the exquisite works.
Medieval baptismal fonts, signatures and handwritten notes of figures from early US history, a battle flag from one of Napoleon’s regiments, enormous whole fireplaces moved stone by carefully-labeled stone, tapestries, Italian Ren portraiture, a wild mish-mosh, all as when Isabella Stewart Gardner lived. It’s like a trip through her imagination.
And a couple of empty frames: it was the site of a dramatic, brazen, and still-unsolved art heist in 1990:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum_theft