Day 1 :
Embark on your Art & Architecture Tour of New York City
- Depart from home airport:
Relax and enjoy your scheduled flight.
- Upon arrival and logistical overview:
Your 24-hour Tour Director will meet you at the airport and remain with your group until your final airport departure. Your private coach will be waiting to transfer you to your hotel. In New York, the cost of public transport is included for all group sightseeing. Escorted by your Tour Director, you’ll be able to experience the city in the same manner as the locals.
- New York City:
The Big Apple, as New York is affectionately known, is historic, trendsetting, and dynamic. Below the skyscraper skyline, museums exhibit their latest collections, cutting-edge restaurants unveil their newest creations, and Broadway continues to stage many of the world's most elaborate productions. However, beyond the hustle and bustle lives an incredibly diverse population. New York’s unique mixture of people and cultures forms a solid foundation and provides seemingly limitless energy for this city that never sleeps.
- Accommodations:
Your base for the next four nights will be in the greater New York City area, where daily breakfast will be included.
- Group dinner:
Enjoy an evening meal together in a local restaurant.
- Daily reflection and group discussion:
"We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience." - John Dewey
Every evening of the program, we’ll set time aside to update your Reflection Journal and share thoughts and impressions that have come up during the day.
Day 2 :
Exploring Midtown Manhattan
- Local expertise:
During your tour, your group will gain the knowledge and insights of half-day local guides in New York.
- MOMA:
Visit The Museum of Modern Art. The museum seeks to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental, the past and the present, in an environment that’s responsive to modern and contemporary art issues while still being accessible to the public ranging from scholars to young children.
- St. Patrick’s Cathedral:
Visit St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the largest decorated Gothic-style Catholic cathedral in the United States and recognized throughout its history as a center of the country’s Catholic life.
- Times Square:
Take a walking tour of Times Square. The area around 42nd Street and Broadway is occupied by major corporations and national chain stores as well as new hotels, clubs, and theaters. Explore the vast history, architecture, theater, and underworld of legendary Times Square—the Crossroads of the World.
- Group dinner:
Enjoy your evening meal as a group in a local restaurant.
Day 3 :
Ancient to Modern Art
- The Met:
Explore The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum's collection contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass and from ancient through modern times.
- Central Park:
Central Park is as close to nature as one gets in New York and is frequented by locals for leisure activities. View the John Lennon memorial "Strawberry Fields" and the 60-foot-long Bow Bridge, the most filmed location in Central Park and where you can observe both the rowboats in the lake or the Fifth Avenue skyline.
- The Whitney:
Visit the Whitney Museum of American Art, which houses one of the world's foremost collections of 20th-century American art. The museum was founded in 1931 with a core group of 700 exhibits, many of them from the personal collection of founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
- Group dinner:
Enjoy an evening meal together in a local restaurant.
Day 4 :
Modern Art and Architecture
- Empire State Building:
Visit the Empire State Building, soaring more than a quarter of a mile into the sky above the heart of Manhattan. On the 86th floor, 1,050ft above the city's bustling streets, the Observatory offers panoramic views from both the glass-enclosed pavilion and the surrounding open-air promenade.
- The Guggenheim:
Visit The Guggenheim Art Museum, an internationally renowned art museum founded on a collection of early modern masterpieces. Today, it’s an ever-growing institution devoted to 20th-century art and beyond.
- The Chrysler Building:
Visit the Chrysler Building, designed by architect William Van Alen. The lobby, a distinguished art deco design, includes Moroccan marble walls and Mexican white onyx panels, while the elevator doors of multi-colored wood were inspired by those of Tutankhamen’s Tomb.
- Group dinner:
Enjoy your evening meal as a group in a local restaurant.
- Final reflection and discussion session:
This evening, you’ll make the final entries in your Reflection Journal and share some of the most significant observations and perspectives that have taken shape throughout your Art and Architecture Tour of New York City. We’ll also discuss how these experiences may be most relevant for us all as we return home.
Day 5 :
Departure from NYC
- Depart for home:
Your rewarding and enjoyable Art and Architecture in New York program comes to an end as your Tour Director accompanies your group to the airport on your final day.
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