After Hours Plus, 7 pm: Screening of Artist-in-Residence film, The Ephemeral in Focus.

Tickets : FREE for members; $12 adult non-members; $10 seniors; $5 students. (Film admission included with After Hours tickets. Limited seating is first come, first served).

Community Creations celebrates the collaboration between the Gardner and seven community organizations in the Boston area. Inspired by the museum, its collection, and special visits with contemporary Artists-in-Residence, students create their own extraordinary works of art for this exhibition.

After Hours Plus, 7 pm: Jazz at the Gardner: Berklee Bluegrass Band

Cross your fingers as we take it outside!

Tickets : FREE for members; $12 adult non-members; $10 seniors; $5 students.

After Hours Plus Tickets (include concert/performance): $15 members; $23 adults; $18 seniors; $10 students.

Thursday, June 26 – September 28 –
Special Exhibition: Luisa Rabbia:
Travels with Isabella, Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008

During her residency at the Gardner Museum, Luisa Rabbia was inspired by photographs Isabella Stewart Gardner collected while traveling in China in 1883. For this exhibition, she has used these archival photographs to create a video of an imaginary landscape animated with her own drawings, as well as with other images and music also inspired during her residency. The result is a fantastical narrative that is both contemporary and historical.

Luisa Rabbia’s work is deeply rooted in drawing, which she sees as a platform that unites rational construct with the imagination. The dynamic tension that exists in drawing between the subject figure and its background, the being and becoming of space and time, has influenced much of Rabbia’s work with paper, papier-maché, porcelain, and animation.

Exhibition Programming:

-Friends of Fenway Court Preview: Wednesday, June 25, 6:30 pm.

-Member Preview: Thursday, June 26, 6:30 pm.

-Artist Talk: Luisa Rabbia, Artist-in-Residence & Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator of Contemporary Art, Saturday, June 28, 1:30 pm.

- Summer Night : Gallery talk with writer and critic Mario Diacono at 7pm, DJ Concert by musician and producer Fa Ventilato at 7:30pm, Thursday, July 31.

-Animation and Sound: A Two-Part Process: Luisa Rabbia and Fa Ventilato in conversation. Thursday, September 18, 7:00pm.

-Memory and Invention and Personal Travel Scrapbooks: Alan Chong, Curator of the collection and Pieranna Cavalchini in conversation followed by the book launch and signing of Travels with Isabella by Luisa Rabbia. Thursday, September 25, 6:30pm.

On three summer nights each year the Gardner Museum throws open its doors for a series of Neighborhood Nights, inviting our neighbors to join in a free celebration of the arts. Each evening features live music, storytelling, and performances under the stars along with fun activities that children, teens, and adults can enjoy together. Join us for three lively nights with programs for the whole family.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is located at 280 The Fenway, Boston. We're on the MBTA Green Line (E train to "Museum" stop).

Free Parking is generously donated by Boston Latin School for certain museum events, please check calendar listings. Paid Parking is available in limited metered spaces surrounding the museum and in the MFA lot and garage on Museum Road.
Map of Parking Directions (PDF)

The Museum is open Tuesday-Sunday, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Galleries begin closing at 4:45 p.m.).