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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a museum in Boston, MA, part of the Boston guide. Cost: under $25. Open year-round; closed Tuesdays.

25 Evans Way · Boston, MA

Why you should go…

One eccentric collector built herself a Venetian palazzo, filled it with Rembrandts, Titians, and tapestries, and decreed nothing ever be rearranged, so empty frames still hang where thieves cut out $500 million in masterpieces in 1990, the greatest unsolved art heist in history. The flowering interior courtyard is one of the most beautiful rooms in America. Bonus: anyone named Isabella gets in free, forever.

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