Travel Albums of Isabella Stewart Gardener

After establishing the first sole archives department for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, I proposed a project that received $150,000 in funding from the Leon Levy Foundation to conserve and make accessible the collection of travel albums created by philanthropist and museum founder Isabella Stewart Gardner. These albums, the most requested by scholars, illustrate Gardner's artistic inspirations and acted as a sort of blueprint for the later creation that was her museum. Among some of the most referred to but most fragile documents in the archives, this website, co-created with the digital department at the Massachusetts College of Art, was the first of all of Gardner's collections to be digitized and made available to online visitors.