Free First Thursdays at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

On this Free First Thursday, escape into a garden unlike any other with our just-opened summer exhibition Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden, which features large-scale, playful sculptures of fruits, seeds, and hybrid plants. Then, dig into the roots of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s cross-pollination of art and horticulture in Flowers for Isabella in the Fenway Gallery. Cool down in the Courtyard, filled with the refreshing hues of Summer Blues, while enjoying artist Lee Mingwei’s soundscape Small Conversation that fills the space with the melodies of crickets, cicadas, and frogs. 

And if you’re keeping an eye out for public art, look up! Yu-Wen Wu’s Reigning Beauty, 2025 crowns the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade and is featured as part of the Boston Public Art Triennial. Café G is open late for dinner and drinks, and be sure to shop at the treasure trove that is Gift at the Gardner. 

Calderwood Hall and the Bertucci Education Studio will not be open on July 3rd.

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  "Nocturnes" Concert at the Multicultural Arts Center

  Saturday, Jul 05, 2025 7:00p

  Multicultural Arts Center
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  Pride on the Plaza

  Saturday, Jun 28, 2025 3:00p

  Birch Street Plaza
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  Comedy at Summer Shack ($15 + Free Parking!)

  Saturday, Jun 28, 2025 7:30p

  Summer Shack
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  The Millennial Event at The Great American Beer Hall

  Saturday, Jun 28, 2025 6:00p

  The Great American Beer Hall
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  Wine Warehouse Party

  Saturday, Jun 28, 2025 9:00p

  First Street Market

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