Spend a year visiting the lush Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 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, you can experience much the same thing. Go back in time to 1924, as the museum has remained relatively unchanged since its founder's death. Unchanged but certainly not stagnant. Three floors of galleries featuring paintings, sculpture, tapestries, furniture, and decorative arts from cultures spanning thirty centuries surround a garden courtyard blooming with life in all seasons.