Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will treat four 16th-century Flemish tapestries to ensure their long-term preservation. The tapestries relate The Story of Cyrus and are dated between 1535 and 1550. Several bear the Brussels city mark and the weaver’s marks of Jan der Moyen. Through cleaning, stabilizing the structures, and attaching new backing supports and hanging systems, the treatment will strengthen the tapestries’ structural integrity, counteract the effects of gravity, and improve their overall appearance. When finished, the tapestries will be hung in the museum’s Tapestry Room, which is being reinstalled according to archival photographs from 1915. The work will be shared with a broad spectrum of audiences, including general and online visitors, school partners, museum teachers, and the conservation community.