

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.

