STUDY TRIPS ABROAD
The Decorative Arts Trust organizes biannual Study Trips Abroad that explore the origin and transfer of design and style in architecture and the decorative and fine arts between Europe and America. Our participants benefit from meeting local experts for lectures and collection tours and enjoying exclusive, behind-the-scenes visits to private properties, while staying in elegant accommodations and reveling in the opportunity to explore the great museums and historic sites of the Continent and British Isles, both on and off the beaten path. Study Trips Abroad are open to members at the Sponsor level and above. Join today!
Click on any of the links below to read reviews and itineraries of our previous Study Trips or visit our calendar for upcoming events.
UPCOMING
La Dolce Vita in Northern Italy: Genoa, Turin & Milan
STUDY TRIP ABROAD
October 4-13 and 18-27, 2021; Extension October 14-17, 2021
Andalusia
STUDY TRIP ABROAD
March 2022
The Great Houses of Upper Ireland: The North & Border Counties
STUDY TRIP ABROAD
May 2022
Bavaria
STUDY TRIP ABROAD
October 2022
East Anglia
STUDY TRIP ABROAD
May 2023
Portugal
STUDY TRIP ABROAD
March 2024
PAST STUDY TRIPS ABROAD
An Embarrassment of Riches: Tracing the Dutch Golden Age in Amsterdam & Maastricht’s TEFAF
STUDY TRIP ABROAD
March 8-15, 2020
Vestiges of the Château de Chanteloup in Tours
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
FALL 2019
Saving a Treasure in North Wales: Gwrych Castle
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
SPRING 2019
Exploring Moroccan Design
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
SPRING 2019
Czeching out Prague’s Art Nouveau Masterpieces
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
FALL 2018
Sweden’s Culture King
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
SPRING 2018
Review: Celebrating Chippendale’s Tercentenary
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
SPRING 2018
Reconciling Palladio in the Veneto and Palladianism Abroad
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
FALL 2017
A Study in Contrasts: Exploring Newhailes and Dumfries House in Scotland
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
SPRING 2017
Yorkshire in the Age of Chippendale
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
FALL 2016
Resilience, Rebuilding, and Reconciliation in Poland
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
SPRING 2016
The Breathtaking Sites of Sicily
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
FALL 2015
Discovering Eastern Germany’s Treasures
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
SPRING 2015
Exploring English Libraries and Country Houses
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
FALL 2014
Irish Eyes Smile upon the Trust
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
SPRING 2014
The 2013 Fall Study Trip to the Upper Rhine
REVIEW: STUDY TRIP ABROAD
FALL 2013
2012
Spain: Art & Architecture in Seville, Granada, Madrid & Barcelona
2011
Holland: Decorative Arts, Interiors, Gardens and Architecture
2010
In the Footsteps of Jefferson: Paris and the South of France
Flanders to Cologne with TEFAF, the Famous Maastricht Antique Fair
2009
The Glories of Poland: Cracow to Warsaw
2008
Study Trip Abroad: Portugal
2007
The Glory of the Habsburgs
2006
The Grand Tour II: Port to Port, Venice to Genoa via Florence
2005
The Grand Tour to Rome, Naples, Pompeii and Herculaneum
2004
Witnessing the Baltics and the Impact of the Hanseatic League: Stockholm, Tallinn & St. Petersburg
2003
Berlin, Potsdam, Wittenberg, Dresden and Prague
2002
Paris and the South of France: In the Footsteps of Jefferson
2000
Study Trips Abroad to London & Bath
1999
Scotland and Northern England
1998
Holland: Dutch Decorative Arts and Architecture
1997
Ireland: The Influence of Palladian Design on Irish Architecture (co-sponsored with the Center for Palladian Studies)
1996
Palladian Villas, Architecture and Decorative Arts in Venice, Vicenza and Verona (co-sponsored with the Center for Palladian Studies)