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Isabella Stewart Gardner first
welcomed visitors to her museum on New Year's Day, 1903. On
that evening guests listened to the music of Bach, Mozart, and
Schumann, gazed in wonder at the courtyard full of flowers,
and viewed one of the nation's finest collections of art. Today,
visitors experience much the same thing. The Gardner Museum
has remained essentially unchanged since its founder's death
in 1924. Unchanged but certainly not stagnant. Three floors
of galleries surround a garden courtyard blooming with life
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The
galleries are filled with paintings, sculpture, tapestries,
furniture, and decorative arts from cultures spanning thirty
centuries. |
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