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VISITS
Click on any underlined link for further information.
A number of visits are arranged during the year.
Tickets are sold 2 months prior to the visit and in the first instance are sold to members only.
We can accommodate a maximum of 49 people on our coach for most of our visits and tickets are sold on a first come first served basis.
Booking forms and tickets are available from the Visits Desk in the hall at lecture meetings. We ask you always to pay for your tickets by cheque.
Forthcoming visits:
2010 Tuesday, 14th September National Maritime Museum, Greenwich James Taylor, who last year gave us a most interesting talk on Cook’s voyages and is
returning in October to tell us about the artists on board the “Beagle”, will guide us first round some of the paintings in the museum, and then take us round
the fabulous collection of model ships. There will also be time for free exploration. Tickets on sale at the June meeting. Wednesday 10th November “Maker of Myth” The exhibition explores Gauguin’s innovative and unique method of storytelling featuring
over one hundred works from public and private collections around the world. It includes letters, water colours, ceramics and carvings. Tickets on sale at the
September meeting. Thursday 2nd December 7.15pm Harpenden Worthies A talk in Park Hall, Harpenden. 2011 Wednesday 2nd March The final trip before the present visits team retire is a visit to the Royal Institution and a walking tour of the area.
2010 Wednesday 12th May Hampton Court Palace A visit to an old favourite with a difference. There will be two tours in the morning: one led by Linda Collins will focus on the tapestries and paintings, then the groups will swap for a tour led by Siobhan Clarke on everyday social history connected with the palace. In the afternoon Chris Stevens, Superintendent of the Queen’s Paintings, will talk to us on painting conservation and, if possible, take us to see work in progress. Tickets on sale at the March meeting. Wednesday 7th July The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A trip to Oxford to see the exciting new galleries. The morning is free for independent viewing with the afternoon set aside for a guided tour of the galleries. These depict the connections between objects and activities of different cultures through the interaction of the cultures of east and west during ancient and modern times. Tickets on sale at the April meeting.
(Previous visits)
©: National Maritime Museum London
Gauguin Exhibition at Tate Modern
Photo: Courtesy Tate Modern
people who contributed to life in Harpenden in the past
Tickets on sale at the October and November meetings.
©: Ashmolean Museum
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