{"id":5008,"date":"2011-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/2011\/02\/gardner-undergoes-both-preservation-expansion-2\/"},"modified":"2011-02-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T05:00:00","slug":"gardner-undergoes-both-preservation-expansion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2011\/02\/01\/gardner-undergoes-both-preservation-expansion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardner Undergoes Both Preservation, Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5097\/5395861993_2559345785_b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is in the middle of an ambitious $180 million upgrade. But because its namesake left explicit instructions that nothing be altered after her death, the changes underway have raised some questions&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The transition is really two projects  &#8211;  the restoration of the Gardner&#8217;s historic Venetian palace, and the construction of a new, strikingly different addition just 50 feet away. But a certain yin and yang is at play here between the old and the contemporary, according to project director James Labeck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read how the Gardner&#8217;s conservators are straddling the line in this article on the  <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ftalternatingbarlinklarge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/2011\/01\/31\/gardner-expansion-2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WBUR.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is in the middle of an ambitious $180 million upgrade. But because its namesake left explicit instructions that nothing be altered after her death, the changes underway have raised some questions&#8230;. The transition is really two projects &#8211; the restoration of the Gardner&#8217;s historic Venetian palace, and the construction of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2011\/02\/01\/gardner-undergoes-both-preservation-expansion-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gardner Undergoes Both Preservation, Expansion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}