Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Venetian-style palace museum with courtyard gardens, holding a private collection frozen exactly as its founder left it.
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This guide to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston centers on the early morning of March 18, 1990, when two men disguised as Boston police talked their way past a young guard and made off with thirteen works, including a Rembrandt and a Vermeer. You'll hear about the will of the Boston heiress who built this Venetian palace and forbade the collection from ever being rearranged, and about the decades-long hunt and reward that followed. Stand in front of the empty gilt frame the museum has left untouched ever since.
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