Kasteel well Required Academic Field Excursions

Travel is integral to the Kasteel Well experience. In addition to their independent travels, Kasteel Well students will explore as a group the cultural and historical offerings in major European cities.  Some examples might include:

Amsterdam

• City walk around the theme: Amsterdam and Holland in the Golden Age
• Rijksmuseum: lecture on Netherlandish painting of the 16th and the 17th Century
• Van Gogh Museum
• Optional: Jewish Historical Museum with visit to three synagogues; Anne Frank House; Rembrandt House; Film museum; Marine Museum; evening concert of classical music

London

• Westminster Abbey
• The House of Parliament
• Buckingham Palace
  
• British Museum
• Tate Modern
• National Portrait Gallery
  
• BBC Television Center
• National Gallery
• Victoria and Albert Museum
  
• Imperial War Museum
• Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery
• Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
  
• London National Theatre backstage tour
• Royal Opera House backstage tour
• Optional: London Wall Walk, Tower Bridge and the Tower of London, Kensington Palace and Hyde Park, Covent Garden

Paris

• The Louvre Chateau: the medieval Louvre Castle and the medieval origins of Paris
• Louvre Museum: lecture on painting and sculpture of Antiquity and the Renaissance
• Notre Dame Cathedral
• Musée de Cluny: Late medieval sculpture, stained glass windows, furniture and tapestries• Sainte Chapelle: Architecture and decoration of the Late Gothic
• Optional: Versailles; Musée Quai d’Orsay; Centre Pompidou; Picasso Museum; Victor Hugo’sHouse; The Opera House; Walk through the Jewish Quarter; Church of Saint Denis; Evening concert of medieval music

Florence (fall term only)

• City Center: urban planning during the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• The late medieval city hall: fresco decoration and political propaganda
• The Bargello and the Academy: sculpture of the Renaissance
• The Uffizi: painting of the Renaissance
• Churches of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• Dome of Florence and Renaissance Architecture
• Optional: Palazzo Vecchio; Palazzo Strozzi; Palazzo Medici

Münich (spring term only)

• The Residence of the Bavarian Dukes and Kings
• The treasur of the Residence
• The Rococo (late 18th century) music theatre of the Residence
• Münich’s urban planning of the 19th century
• Late Baroque and Rococo churches
• Schack Gallery: paintings of the Romantic time period
• Visit to Dachau and lecture on the Second World War
• Optional: Technology Science and Aircraft Museum; evening concert of classical music; German play

Prague

• City Walk through the Historical Center:  An Introduction to the history of Prague
• Prague Castle with the St. Vitus Cathedral
• Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia: Museum of Medieval Art
• Estates Theatre Prague Opera
• Museum of Modern Art at the Veletrzni Palace
• Visit to Theresienstadt used as ghetto during WW II
• Jewish Quarter with its synagogues and old jewish cemetery
• Optional: Franz Kafka Museum; Mucha Museum; Municipal House

As of 8/27/08.  Subject to Change.