The Gardner Heist
One museum, two thieves, 13 works of art. Reward money? $5 million. Getting the art back: priceless.
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How has the experience of visiting the Gardner changed since the theft?
When you go there and see the empty frames, you can’t help but sit down and talk about what happened. But the museum has moved on. It has done a great job opening up to different audiences and it is also planning an expansion.
But it’s important to see the museum as a whole, because that’s what Isabella Gardner herself wanted. She saw the museum as her own work of art. It was created as an entity, rather than simply a museum.
Official Web site of the Gardner Museum
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