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Mark McCusker, Scott Fulton, and Phil DiChiara washed windows in the glass corridor at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in preparation for the opening of the new wing.

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Jim Labeck, project manager at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, walked through the front lobby of the new wing.

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A lawn ornament was placed on the grounds to keep geese off the newly planted lawn in front of the new wing at the the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

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The central stairway was cleaned on Jan. 6.

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Workers prepard the front entrance of the building on Jan. 6.

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M. K. Wong, museum shop manager, prepared an item for the new store at the museum.

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Electrician Dan Vicente worked in the ceiling.

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Taylor Johnson works in the greenhouse.

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Kristin Pishvanov, a new visitor service representative, sat with the canaries who will live in the living room space just to the right of the new entrance.

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Painter Bob Haskell touched up the ceiling in the music hall.

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This will be the new main entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Musueum.