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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
(ISGM) or
Fenway Court
, as the museum was known during
Isabella Stewart Gardner
's lifetime, is a
museum
in the
Fenway-Kenmore
neighborhood of
Boston
,
Massachusetts
, located within walking distance of the
Museum of Fine Arts
(although the Museum of Fine Arts's
Huntington Avenue
location was constructed after Fenway Court) and near the
Back Bay Fens
. The museum houses an art collection of world importance, including significant examples of
European
,
Asian
, and
American art
, from paintings and sculpture to tapestries and decorative arts. In 1990,
thirteen of the museum's works were stolen
; the high-profile crime remains unsolved and the artwork's location is still unknown.
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