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Anne Hawley, director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in the central stairway of the museum’s new wing.

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Gardner Museum director Anne Hawley and Jim Labeck, the director of operations, looked over a model of the new wing on Jan 19, 2010.

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Anne Hawley took members of the news media on a tour of the construction site.

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Anne Hawley spoke with Jessica Chloros, an assistant objects conservator, while she cleaned the Peplophoros statue with a laser on Dec. 1, 2011.

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Hawley spoke with Alanna Nelson, a textiles conservator at the museum.

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Anne Hawley looked over the Gardner Museum extension as it neared completion.

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Anne Hawley stood with architect Renzo Piano in the glass corridor of the finished new wing at the Gardner Museum on Jan. 11, 2011.