The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a museum to delight all the senses. Nestled behind the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, down the street from Fenway Park and around the corner from the world renowned Longwood Medical Area, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum offers a gateway back into time through art, furniture and collectibles. The museum is housed in Isabella Stewart Gardner's former residence and many of the pieces still remain in the same place they stood nearly a hundred years ago. Visitors delight in the beautifully cultivated indoor garden while making their way up the flights of stairs to the upper galleries. Every aspect of the building is a work of art, from the stone entryways to the carved stairway banisters to the upholstered chairs. The gallery is most notably known for a famous art heist in 1990. Thieves stole various Rembrant and Degas paintings as well as a Vermeer and Manet. The pieces have never been located and the museum has never changed their placement. Empty walls still remain in their former place.
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