General admission for children 17 years and under is always free

Escape the Ordinary at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
In 1903, Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her museum “for the education and enjoyment of the public forever.”
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Three separate images representing the Summer 2025 exhibition suite.

Summer 2025 Exhibitions

June 26 - September 21, 2025

A detail of the candelabra showing a shield with a grasshopper and three ears of wheat
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Fire-breathing Dragons from the ISGM Decorative Ironwork

Discovering Isabella’s love for iron candelabras, sconces, and dragons. 

Adults and children working on an art project making flowers.
Art Making

Saturday Open Studio

August 30, 2025

Stop by the Bertucci Education Studio and join us for an art-making activity designed by Polly Thayer Starr Visiting Artist Rayna Lo.

Photo of people playing instruments on a stage.
Music

2025 Fall Weekend Concert Series

The Weekend Concert Series features classical masterpieces, performed by celebrated icons and rising stars on Sunday afternoons.

An image of the Courtyard with people during daylight hours
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Free First Thursday

Join us for an evening of artmaking, live music, and community inspired by our current exhibitions: Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden, Flowers for Isabella, and Yu-Wen Wu: Reigning Beauty, 2025.

Group of visitors looking at a painting by Titian while a docent speaks
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