Opens October 7
Joan Courtois Gallery. Stairwelll

The Gardiner Museum is 40 years old! To celebrate this milestone, we invited our Gardiner community to help us curate an exhibition of beloved objects from the Museum’s collection, displayed across three floors of the Gardiner’s glass stairwell and woven throughout the second-floor collection galleries. From former curators and long-serving volunteers to school groups and social media followers, we received submissions from the full spectrum of Gardiner lovers. Sharing moments of joy, inspiration, and learning, these selections capture the different ways our community has interacted and connected with the permanent collection over the past 40 years.