Visits
As a NADFAS society we are often able to arrange access to houses that are not usually open to the public and to obtain the services of guides at museums and galleries. We also take coach trips to well-known venues, with pre-arranged entry to special exhibitions. Historically we have had tours of a few days either in the UK or abroad each year. Here are some of our past tours and visits.
Booking for visits is by form accompanied by a cheque. Bookings will open at the lecture specified in the details of visits below. You will be able to download a booking form by clicking on the title of the visit. Details of visits with booking forms will appear here as near as possible to the lecture at which they are first available for sale.
Future visits
2012 Visits - Diary Dates
Leonardo at The National Gallery, London
Wednesday, 25 January, 2012. Cost (not including lunch) £30
This visit is now fully booked. There is a waiting list for cancellations. If you would like to add your name please do so on the Booking Form which you can download and print. Please mark your form 'waiting list' and send it (without a cheque) to the Visits organisers.
Blenheim Palace and Bletchley Park
Sunday 22 and Monday 23 April 2012
For full information please take a look at the Booking Form
We shall spend two days away with an overnight stay in Oxfordshire. Blenheim Palace,home of the Duke of Marlborough set in 'Capability' Brown landscaped parkland is a magnificent part of our architectural and artistic heritage. Bletchley Park has less to recommend it architecturally being a series of huts but it is no less an important part of our history with its essential role in our defence during the Second World War.The huts house the machines and exhibitions showing how the German codes were broken. An exciting visit with Churchillian links.
A Booking Form which you can download and print is now available.
Booking will open at the December meeting.
Wrest Park and Southill Park
Monday, 21 May 2012
We shall visit the newly restored gardens at Wrest Park, Hertfordshire and then Southill Park,in Bedfordshire. Home of the Whitbread family,it has a wealth of paintings and furniture and beautiful gardens.
Further information and a Booking Form will be available later.
Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Surrey and Chiswick House
Monday, 18 June, 2012
A visit to the house made famous by Horace Walpole and recently restored and reopened.We shall also visit Chiswick House,the neo-Palladian Villa designed by Lord Burlington and finished in 1729. The gardens at Chiswick have many interesting architectural and landscape features and there should be time to tour them.
Further information and Booking Form will be available later.
Holland and the Dutch Masters
2 September to 7 September
For further information and details of our exciting and full programme please look at the Booking Form
We will leave Harwich by overnight ferry on the evening of Sunday 2nd September and arrive back on Friday morning in time for breakfast at home. This allows us three nights and four full days of sightseeing in Holland. We start by visiting Amsterdam and have a guided tour of the highlights of the Rjiksmuseum. In the afternoon there will be the opportunity to join a guided tour of one of the great merchant houses or to go independent and visit the Anne Frank House – or just wander around the city. Before going to our hotel in The Hague we have a canal boat tour of the city. Our second sightseeing day is in the less frequently visited town of Leiden where we shall visit a C17th library; the oldest Botanical Garden in Holland; a museum whose collection includes famous artists who were Leiden natives, including Rembrandt and Jan Steen, and the Town Hall. On our return to The Hague we visit a private gallery. On the third day we have a guided tour of the Mauritshaus in The Hague with its outstanding collection of paintings and in the afternoon we visit Delft, finishing at the Vermeer Centre. Our final day is in the country: the royal palace of Het Loo has fine gardens as well as a distinguished collection, and this visit will be followed by one to the nearby privately owned Kröller Müller Museum with its fine collection of art from the turn of the C19th and C20th in addition to Chinese porcelain and Delftware.
Booking Form
Booking opens at the January meeting.
Goldsmiths' Hall and St Paul's Cathedral, City of London
Monday, 12 November, 2012
Details and Booking form will be available closer to the date.