Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Arranged with each room keeping its own character, the space feels more like a historic palace than a traditional museum. The collection brings together paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts spanning ancient Rome, Asia, the Renaissance, and 19th-century Europe, including pieces by Rembrandt set around the floral courtyard. The experience is also shaped by the building's domestic past—the people who lived here before it became a museum, the letters dedicated to Isabella, and the thefts that occurred there.