Travel Adventures

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NEW TRIPS

ITALIAN MASTERS

Interested in barging to Venice, Italy with the Florence Griswold Museum in May?!

The Art and Architecture of the Italian Masters Barge Trip from Cremona to Venice
May 10-19, 2012

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This eight-night voyage which focuses on the history of the Italian Masters. We’ll sleep, wine and dine on a newly built, custom designed barge that will travel from Mantua via the Canal Bianca to Venice on the Adriatic Sea. Our days will be filled with excursions to historic sites and museums in the cities of Cremona, Mantua, Verona, Vicenza, Ferrara, Padua and Venice. Art historians will enlighten us on the Italian Masters while we explore museums,
fabulous frescoed villas and palaces, and renowned collections featuring artists
of the Venetian and Ferrarese schools of painting.

EVITA ON BROADWAY

Wednesday, June 20
8:30am-8pm
$185 (members $175)
No Refunds on Broadway Shows

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Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Tony Award-winning tale of Argentina’s controversial First Lady, Evita Peron, is headed back to Broadway and the Florence Griswold Museum has reserved a block of orchestra seats for Wednesday, June 20th, at 2pm. The musical features songs such as Don’t Cry for Me Argentina and High Flying Adored, and follows Evita’s early life, rise to power, charity work, and eventual death. Argentinian Elena Roger will take on the mantle of the complex “Evita,” as she did in London -- wowing audiences across the pond, while Latin music star Ricky Martin will star as “Che.” Tony Award-winning Michael Cerveris will play Juan Peron. This show is sure to be a highlight of the 2012 Broadway season

PAST TRAVELS
These trips allow for intimate groups of members to share educationally intensive art and history adventures.

Domestic overnight travel in recent years has included:
Philadelphia Flower Show
Biltmore, Asheville, NC
Colonial Williamsburg
Nantucket
Northern California
Southern California
The Adirondacks in Upstate New York

Day Trips In and Around New England
Some of the most popular member trips are day trips schedule in and around New England. Blockbuster exhibitions in New York, Hartford, and Boston are big draws for our Museum members and are often paired with visits to lesser-known, but culturally rich treasures.

Day trips in recent years have included:
New York for the latest Broadway Show
Dia Center
Museum of Natural History
Peabody Essex Museum
Edith Wharton’s "The Mount" and Chesterwood
Storm King Art Center and Boscobel
Neue Galerie of Art and the Museum of American Folk Art, New York
Vassar Art Gallery and Locust Grove
Boston Flower Show and Kennedy Library
The Metropolitan Museum and the New York Historical Society
Clark Art Institute and MassMOCA

International Destinations
The Museum has global aspirations when it comes to the lifelong learning of its members. Trips abroad often put the Museum's collection and history into the larger context of world art and culture with an array of diverse and enriching experiences.

International travel in recent years has included:
Barge trip to the Netherlands
Barge trip to France
Spring Fling: An Insiders Artistic Adventures in Paris
Italian Treasures: Rome, Naples, and the Italian Coast
Cuba
Great Houses and Gardens of Britain and Wales
Provence: Paradise on Earth
20th Century Spanish Art and Architecture
Treasures of Old Russia