Dover Senior Center plans trip to Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

posted on: 7/13/2015

The Dover Community Senior Center will travel to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015.

The trip features a one-hour, docent-led tour of the museum and a luncheon at the Venezia restaurant, offering fantastic views of the Boston waterfront. The $82 price also includes deluxe motorcoach transportation and driver tip.

Isabella Stewart Gardner was one of the foremost female patrons of the arts. She was a patron and friend of leading artists and writers of her time, including John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and Henry James. She was also the visionary creator of what remains one of the most remarkable and intimate collections of art in the world today and a dynamic supporter of artists of her time, encouraging music, literature, dance, and creative thinking across artistic disciplines.

For over three decades, Isabella Stewart Gardner traveled the world and worked with important art patrons and advisors to amass a remarkable collection of master and decorative arts. Isabella Gardner installed her collection of works in a way to evoke intimate responses to the art, mixing paintings, furniture, textiles, and objects from different cultures and periods among well-known European paintings and sculpture.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was featured in the book 2009 true crime novel, "The Gardner Heist" by Ulrich Boser.

The Dover Community Senior Center welcomes "not-yet-members" to travel with the Center once prior to joining, so if you haven’t been on the road with the Dover Community Senior Center before, this is the perfect time to try out one of the fantastic trips.

For more information, contact Marcia Garofano at the Dover Community Senior Center at 603-516-6437.