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Why Are 13 Empty Frames Still Hanging in This Museum?

In the Dutch Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, thirteen gilded frames hang exactly where she placed them. No art inside — just empty frames on the wall. Her will forbids moving anything in the collection, ever.

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