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!
UPCOMING
Greece: Mythical and Magical
STUDY TRIP ABROAD
March 12–20 & March 26–April 3, 2025, Extension March 20–25
Country Houses and Palaces Along the Thames: London to Oxford
STUDY TRIP ABROAD
May 8–17, June 5–14, September 18–27, 2025
Japan: Art and Architecture Under the Rising Sun
STUDY TRIP ABROAD
September 15–28, 2025
The Netherlands: The Golden Age through Modernity
STUDY TRIP ABROAD
March 2026
Scotland: Country Houses and Collections from the Borders to the Highlands
STUDY TRIP ABROAD
May and June 2026
The Balkans: Croatia, Slovenia, and Montenegro
STUDY TRIP ABROAD
October 2026
PAST STUDY TRIPS ABROAD
The Wonders of Tuscany: Florence and Siena
STUDY TRIP ABROAD
October 3–11, 2024; Extension October 12–16
Saltram’s Saloon: Adam, Chippendale, and Reynolds in England’s West Country
REVIEW: SPRING 2024 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
A Primer on Portugal
REVIEW: EARLY SPRING 2024 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Inspiring Thomas Jefferson: Art and Architecture in France
REVIEW: FALL 2023 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Hervey Silver at Ickworth
REVIEW: SPRING 2023 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Palermo’s Capella Palatina: A Cross-Cultural Jewel Box in Sicily
REVIEW: EARLY SPRING 2023 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Centuries of Fortitude and Fantasy: Munich’s Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory
REVIEW: FALL 2022 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
An Intriguing Muddle in Northern Ireland
REVIEW: SPRING 2022 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
The Folding Fan and Andalucía
REVIEW: SPRING 2022 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Ceramics of Compassion: Palazzo Tursi’s Genoese Maiolica
REVIEW: FALL 2021 STUDY TRIP 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: FALL 2019 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Saving a Treasure in North Wales: Gwrych Castle
REVIEW: SPRING 2019 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Exploring Moroccan Design
REVIEW: SPRING 2019 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Czeching out Prague’s Art Nouveau Masterpieces
REVIEW: FALL 2018 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Sweden’s Culture King
REVIEW: SPRING 2018 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Review: Celebrating Chippendale’s Tercentenary
REVIEW: SPRING 2018 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Reconciling Palladio in the Veneto and Palladianism Abroad
REVIEW: FALL 2017 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
A Study in Contrasts: Exploring Newhailes and Dumfries House in Scotland
REVIEW: SPRING 2017 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Yorkshire in the Age of Chippendale
REVIEW: FALL 2016 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Resilience, Rebuilding, and Reconciliation in Poland
REVIEW: SPRING 2016 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
The Breathtaking Sites of Sicily
REVIEW: FALL 2015 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Discovering Eastern Germany’s Treasures
REVIEW: SPRING 2015 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Exploring English Libraries and Country Houses
REVIEW: FALL 2014 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
Irish Eyes Smile upon the Trust
REVIEW: SPRING 2014 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
The 2013 Fall Study Trip to the Upper Rhine
REVIEW: FALL 2013 STUDY TRIP ABROAD
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)