For more than two decades, Arts & Crafts Tours has developed and offered tours to visit private homes and collections, examining objects that represent the acme of British design.
TOUR DATES: May 25 – June 2, 2025 (Recently Updated) We are delighted to present an exclusive opportunity to explore the architectural and horticultural heritage of the Arts and Crafts […]
TOUR DATES: JUNE 14 -21, 2025 William Morris (1834-1896), arguably the greatest designer-craftsman that England has ever produced, remains a perennially topical influence – not only in the field of […]
Join us for an exclusive tour this August, where we will explore the enchanting houses and gardens nestled in the Borders of England and Scotland, as well as the serene […]
Join us from June 8 to June 16, 2024, as we embark on a captivating journey through time to explore the life and enduring influence of William Morris. This immersive […]
Tour Date: September 16 – 24, 2023 Embark on a nine-day tour exploring John Ruskin’s Scottish roots and discover the rich heritage of one of the most influential thinkers of […]
Our tour will trace many of the events and locations associated with Morris’s hugely prolific career, while also examining his fruitful collaborations with many of the leading artists, designers and […]
The tour begins June 11 - June 20, 2022 and will be based on a series of articles on the Women of the Arts and Crafts Movement, examining the work […]
From May 21 to May 30, this tour will take us to examine the works of the artists, designers, and craft workers of the Arts and Crafts Movement starting in […]
Following last year’s exciting and successful trip to Rome and Venice, The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts is once again pleased to offer a very special tour for our […]
Join us on a unique eight-day tour of England to visit museums, private homes, and churches featuring the work of members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their circle. Organized especially […]
W.C.Fields once said, “I’d rather be in Philadelphia” and in early September we hope you too would rather be in Philadelphia on another special Arts & Crafts Tour. It’s a […]
This past June, we offered a tour called Bloomsbury Revisited, which quickly sold out and was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Our participants appreciated our focused tour agenda which offered opportunities […]
We are extremely lucky to not only have Elizabeth Elvin, former Principal of the Royal School of Needlework, as our guide on this trip, but she has also been able […]
We’ve put together a trip designed to enchant the eye, pique the mind, and delight the palate. With our incomparable access, you will enjoy privileged entrance to some of the […]
June 16 – 24, 2018 If you like houses and gardens, this is your tour. In June we are offering a tour with special cache taking you inside a number […]
JULY 31 TO AUGUST 12, 2016 Arts & Crafts Tours is delighted to be partnering with Festival Daniou for a most unique and exciting tour in the summer of 2016. […]
June 18-28, 2016 Confronted by the terrifying and exhilarating changes that industrialization in the 19th century brought to Britain, the artists and thinkers of the Arts and Crafts Movement found […]
The first of which will be Tiles and Ceramics of the Arts and Crafts Movement. On this trip, we will travel through the western part of England and Wales where much […]
September 10-20, 2016 We are delighted to be offering this tour once again in September 2016. Though the history of Scotland and the area known as the Borders is one […]
This tour organized to coincide with an exhibition at the Tate Britain titled Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde to which the Delaware Art Museum had loaned a number of paintings. In eight […]
August 2016 Our introduction to Finland begins in Helsinki, a city filled with treasures of the Arts and Crafts Movement, known there as Jugenstil. We are especially delighted that Cody […]
October 8 – 16, 2022 Our tour in the autumn of 2022 centres on two counties with a particular hold on the British imagination. The first, ancient and beautiful Yorkshire, […]
Come to know more about several of the planners, patrons, and dreamers beginning in the 18th century who worked to make life better for workers. Among the planners are two […]
It’s not often you get to retrace the steps of those you admire. Many of the leading British arts and crafts designers took much of their inspiration from visiting other […]
Now, more than a century later, Bloomsbury Revisited enabled a small group to spend a week following in their footsteps, visiting the places in London where they lived, exhibited and […]
The history of Scotland and the area known as the Borders is one intricately connected to battles and confrontation. Within Arts and Crafts traditions, this can best be examined in […]
A real understanding of 19th century English domestic architecture calls for an appreciation of the unique alliance between house and garden, but you hardly need an excuse to visit England’s […]
Among the many visits on this trip were ones to such important of Morris’s works as the Oxford Union Society, the William Morris Gallery, Wightwick Manor, St. James’s Palace, Kelmscott […]
Most people are aware of the exceptional furniture, decorative arts, and architecture, which were created as part of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Especially in England where it began, it […]
Romania is a country waiting to be discovered by tourists and this tour introduced its romance, history, myth, and beauty as no other trip there could. It began with three […]
This tour was organized to coincide with an exhibition at the Tate Britain titled Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde to which the Delaware Art Museum had loaned a number of paintings.
We begin at the St Bride Foundation just off of Fleet Street which is the museum of the history of printing with presses and materials that go back to the […]
We are especially pleased that the American Friends of the Arts & Crafts in Chipping Campden has asked us to organize a tour for them to celebrate the 10th anniversary […]
While in Liverpool we will also spend a day at Port Sunlight the enlightened workers village built by Lord Lever with homes by such major architects as Edwin Lutyens and […]
This tour begins on Saturday, May 12, 2018 in Oxford where Morris met so many who changed his history and the future he had planned. It was here he met […]
This will be the second tour to focus principally on libraries, private presses and the often hidden treasures of private houses and museum print rooms. The first tour concentrated on […]
From Greenlaw, we head south stopping at Cragside, designed by Richard Norman Shaw who taught the three and then on to the marvelous St. Andrew’s Church by E.S. Prior in […]
Mark your calendars and come along with us from September 10th to 19th, 2016 when in the company of Dr. James Macaulay, and several other noted guides we will examine some […]
Our tour will trace many of the events and locations associated with Morris’s hugely prolific career, while also examining his fruitful collaborations with many of the leading artists, designers and […]