Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, created by the collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart Gardner and opened in 1903. The building was designed to evoke a Venetian palace, with galleries arranged around a glass-roofed interior courtyard, and under the terms of Gardner's will the arrangement of the collection has been largely preserved as she left it.

The collection spans European, Asian and American art across many centuries. The museum is also known for the unsolved 1990 theft in which thieves removed several works, among them Vermeer's The Concert, which remains missing; empty frames are still displayed in the galleries to mark the stolen works.