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

Berlin (fall term only)

• City Walk through Berlin’s past, present and future covering some of the historical landmarks such as Gedächtniskirche (Memorial Church), Brandenburg Gate, Unter den Linden, Checkpoint Charlie, Reichstag Parliament Building, Alexanderplatz, Potsdamer Platz and the remains of the Berlin Wall (East Side Gallery)
• Contemporary Museum at Hamburger Banhhof
• New National Gallery: Collection of 20th century European paintings and sculptures
• Visit to the Museum Island: Pegamon Museum (Collection of Classical Antiquities/Ancient Near East/Islamic Art), Altes Museum (Collection of Classical Antiquities), Bode Museum (Old Master Paintings), Old National Gallery (19th century sculptures and paintings)
• Gemäldegalerie (Collections of European art from the 13th to 18th century; especially important are the Italian paintings from the 13th to 16th century and Netherlandish painting of the 15th and 16th century)
• German Historical Museum: An extensive and chronological exhibition from the beginning of German history to the present day
• Museum of Photography 
• Jewish Berlin: Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe (Holocaust Memorial), Jewish Museum and New Synagogue
• Optional: Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial (former prison used by the 'Stasi'), Wansee Villa, Olympic Stadium, Charlottenburg castle, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum

Prague (spring term only)

• 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

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

As of 8/27/09.  Subject to Change.