The Gardiner Museum is open seven days a week! Explore our permanent collection, discover special exhibitions, and get hands-on with clay in our studios. We look forward to welcoming you.
Discover recent work by African American artist Sharif Bey in our lobby. Bey foregrounds African and Afro-diasporic aesthetic traditions and considers the role of historical artifacts removed from their cultures of origin.
Don't wait to sign up for the Gardiner's popular summer camps. New this year, all our week-long sessions are full-day multimedia camps, so kids can draw, paint, sculpt, and more.
Every object in our permanent collection can be accessed through our eMuseum portal. Learn about individual collecting areas, like Italian Maiolica or Modern and Contemporary Ceramics, or search the full collection by keyword. You'll be amazed by what you discover!
Help us continue to offer innovative and engaging exhibitions, programs, and community projects in person and online, as well as plan for the future. Please consider making a donation today.
**Today’s Clay Bird Making session will begin at 2 pm instead of 1:30 pm**
Sponsored by David Staines & Noreen Taylor
Join us on the Gardiner Plaza, Wednesday to Friday from 1 – 3:30 pm, for a free clay bird making activity, part of artist David Constantino Salazar’s public art project Forever (Bird-Botanicals).
Salazar explores themes of hope, freedom, growth, and renewal through a series of hand-sculpted clay birds. You’ll be invited to watch a video of the artist demonstrating his technique and to make your own clay birds.
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