Winning bidder will receive 2 complimentary admission passes to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 

Now is a particularly exciting time at the Gardner, with the launch of the new wing by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano.  Designed to be a work of art itself worthy of Gardner's original, the new wing will relieve pressures on the historic collection while enabling visitors to more deeply engage our legacy of enriching encounters with art, music, and horticulture.  Experience the new wing at night.  Soak up the atmosphere of the historic courtyard, live music, wine bar, artist talks, gallery games.

About the Museum

A stunning Venetian palace in the heart of Boston, with three stories of galleries surrounding a flower-filled courtyard, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is recognized the world over as a unique artistic creation.  The museum's collection includes masterpieces from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world, and 19th-century America.  The product of Isabella Gardner's personal vision, the museum's collection, together with its special exhibitions, concerts, and programs, continues to celebrate personal connections with art.

History of the 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, visitors experience much the same thing. The Gardner Museum has remained essentially unchanged since its founder's death in 1924. Unchanged but certainly not stagnant. Three floors of galleries surround a garden courtyard blooming with life in all seasons.

The galleries are filled with paintings, sculpture, tapestries, furniture, and decorative arts from cultures spanning thirty centuries.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's preeminent collection contains more than 2,500 paintings, sculptures, tapestries, furniture, manuscripts, rare books and decorative arts. The galleries house works by some of the most recognized artists in the world, including Titian, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Manet, Degas, Whistler and Sargent. The spirit of the architecture, the personal character of the arrangements

Link is www.gardnermuseum.org