JULY 2022 NEWSLETTER

Let’s Talk Cuba! A Rewarding Destination Returns:

There are few places on earth that are as singularly beautiful, culturally rich, and sensorily rewarding as Cuba. While this unique place has been difficult to visit over the last five years, regulations are changing. Our recent trip to Cuba showed us some new artistic wonders on offer. We are delighted to share our expertise with you and support you in planning your own program in this historic Caribbean nation.

New Offerings:

Your fellow Museum Travel Alliance members at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art have just opened up their London and Cotswolds trip this fall to the full MTA audience. You can download further details of this art-rich cultural program filled with special-access visits below:

Americans in London & the Cotswolds
with Andrew J. Walker, PhD, Executive Director, Amon Carter Museum of American Art
October 12–22, 2022

Perhaps you would like to offer your members something closer to home, and travel with The Hyde Collection to Detroit this November. The Detroit Institute of Arts has launched a historic exhibition featuring Van Gogh masterpieces from all over the world, and your members can receive special access:

Van Gogh in Detroit
Featuring Orchard with Arles in the Background at the Detroit Institute of Arts
with Jonathan P. Canning, M.Phil.,
Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programming, The Hyde Collection
October 30–November 2, 2022

Cruise the Mediterranean with the Museum Travel Alliance:

The Mediterranean’s azure waters have been plied by countless civilizations seeking safe harbors for their profitable merchandise. Fat-hulled grain ships brought bread from the Nile to Rome; Carthaginian galleys lugged rich dark wines from Sicily; and a millennia later a French trawler from recently conquered Corsica brought a fateful cargo to the mainland, a child soon to survive and rise from the chaos of the revolution. The Museum Travel Alliance offers back-to-back Mediterranean cruises aboard Sea Cloud II. You may first set sail along Sicily’s rugged coastlines, then cruise to Sardinia, Corsica, and Elba, concluding in Tuscany on the Italian mainland. Get more information on the Sicily cruise as well as a beautiful sea voyage to lesser-visited Mediterranean islands.

News from the Art World:

This summer, three acclaimed Asian artists—Yusuke Asai of Japan, Pinaree Sanpitak of Thailand, and Kimsooja of South Korea—have filled the Hancock Shaker Village of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, with a fascinating new art exhibition. From incredible fusion delights cooked up out of the farm’s produce, to a mural painted out of the land’s dark rocky soil, to a number of steel stupas forged with help from a local blacksmith, these very different artists have expressed their connection to the Shaker movement through an “integration of the spiritual and the physical in their work, as well as communal ideals.” Learn more about the exhibition here.

Kate Beveridge, Director of Membership
Museum Travel Alliance
kate@museumtravelalliance.com

Questions? Call 1-212-324-1893 or email us at trips@museumtravelalliance.com

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Photos from top: Old Havana; Cuba; Portoferraio, Elba, Italy; Pinaree Sanpitak, Breast Stupa Topiary 2022,
photo by Marc Freedman, Hancock Shaker Village of Pittsfield, Massachusetts

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