With a flower-filled courtyard, this museum is located in a Fifteenth Century Venetian-style building and features changing exhibits of traveling exhibitions, as well as exhibits from the museum’s collection that includes paintings, sculptures, furniture, textiles, drawings, silver work, ceramics, illuminated manuscripts, photographs, and rare books that are of immense importance globally and represent Asia, the Islamic world, Nineteenth Century Europe and America, Ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, and the Italy of the Renaissance. In addition to the many fine exhibitions, the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum is also a preeminent centre of scholarly and historical research and studies.