Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will catalog, photograph, and digitize approximately 6,000 objects including Isabella Stewart Gardner's personal correspondence, as well as literary manuscripts, photographs, autographed letters, plaster casts, numismatics, news clippings, and other turn-of-the century ephemera collected over the course of Gardner's lifetime. The museum will also conduct a condition survey, create a conservation treatment plan, tag the digital items with metadata and curate all digital products into the museum's collection management system, and make these items accessible online through a website re-design. This project will allow the museum to foster a comprehensive understanding of the institution's purpose, relevance, and artistic significance for its staff, scholars, writers, and the general public by producing collection catalog records and metadata that are accurate, searchable, and discoverable online.