Arts and Crafts Tours
Join Arts and Crafts Tours as we examine the roots of the Arts and Crafts Movement traveling in small groups through the United Kingdom, as well as Europe to see some of the most fascinating places, people, and artifacts of the era.
Stained-Glass Tour
in Ireland
June 13 – June 23, 2026
This amazing tour to Ireland explores the exceptional stained glass of the Celtic Revival movement. Led by expert Michael Earley, the itinerary includes major sites like the Honan Chapel and works by Harry Clarke and The Earleys, visiting locations in Dublin, Cork, Galway, and other lesser-known buildings.
Medieval Influences on the Arts and Crafts Movement
October 6 – October 14, 2026
This tour explores how the artists and thinkers of the Arts and Crafts Movement, confronting the changes of industrialized Modernity, found solace and inspiration in the medieval European past. Figures like John Ruskin and William Morris viewed the Middle Ages as a romantic era of chivalry, social order, unshakable faith, and a time when beauty and dignity were found in handiwork.
Bespoke Travel Opportunities
If our planned tours aren’t quite what you have in mind, we’re happy to arrange a private experience tailored just for you.
Individuals and Small Groups
Get in touch with us to design a custom itinerary based on your interests and schedule.
Museums and Special Organizations
If you are involved with a museum, historical society, or special organization, we are happy to develop and lead private tours exclusively for your members. Contact us to discuss partnership opportunities.
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Past Tours
For more than three decades, Arts & Crafts Tours has developed and offered tours to visit private homes and collections, examining objects that represent the acme of British design.
THE CELTIC REVIVAL AND THE ARTS AND CRAFTS IN IRELAND was a nine-day tour dedicated to exploring the rich historical […]
Join us for an exclusive tour this August, where we will explore the enchanting houses and gardens nestled in the […]
Join us from June 8 to June 16, 2024, as we embark on a captivating journey through time to explore […]
Our tour will trace many of the events and locations associated with Morris’s hugely prolific career, while also examining his […]
The tour begins June 11 - June 20, 2022 and will be based on a series of articles on the […]
From May 21 to May 30, this tour will take us to examine the works of the artists, designers, and […]
Following last year’s exciting and successful trip to Rome and Venice, The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts is once […]
Join us on a unique eight-day tour of England to visit museums, private homes, and churches featuring the work of […]
W.C.Fields once said, “I’d rather be in Philadelphia” and in early September we hope you too would rather be in […]
This past June, we offered a tour called Bloomsbury Revisited, which quickly sold out and was thoroughly enjoyed by all. […]
We are extremely lucky to not only have Elizabeth Elvin, former Principal of the Royal School of Needlework, as our […]
We’ve put together a trip designed to enchant the eye, pique the mind, and delight the palate. With our incomparable […]
June 16 – 24, 2018 If you like houses and gardens, this is your tour. In June we are offering […]
JULY 31 TO AUGUST 12, 2016 Arts & Crafts Tours is delighted to be partnering with Festival Daniou for a […]
June 18-28, 2016 Confronted by the terrifying and exhilarating changes that industrialization in the 19th century brought to Britain, the […]
The first of which will be Tiles and Ceramics of the Arts and Crafts Movement. On this trip, we will travel […]
September 10-20, 2016 We are delighted to be offering this tour once again in September 2016. Though the history of […]
This tour organized to coincide with an exhibition at the Tate Britain titled Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde to which the Delaware […]
August 2016 Our introduction to Finland begins in Helsinki, a city filled with treasures of the Arts and Crafts Movement, […]
October 8 – 16, 2022 Our tour in the autumn of 2022 centres on two counties with a particular hold […]
It’s not often you get to retrace the steps of those you admire. Many of the leading British arts and […]
Now, more than a century later, Bloomsbury Revisited enabled a small group to spend a week following in their footsteps, […]
The history of Scotland and the area known as the Borders is one intricately connected to battles and confrontation. Within […]
A real understanding of 19th century English domestic architecture calls for an appreciation of the unique alliance between house and […]
Among the many visits on this trip were ones to such important of Morris’s works as the Oxford Union Society, […]
Most people are aware of the exceptional furniture, decorative arts, and architecture, which were created as part of the Arts […]
Romania is a country waiting to be discovered by tourists and this tour introduced its romance, history, myth, and beauty […]
This tour was organized to coincide with an exhibition at the Tate Britain titled Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde to which the […]
We begin at the St Bride Foundation just off of Fleet Street which is the museum of the history of […]
We are especially pleased that the American Friends of the Arts & Crafts in Chipping Campden has asked us to […]
While in Liverpool we will also spend a day at Port Sunlight the enlightened workers village built by Lord Lever […]
This tour begins on Saturday, May 12, 2018 in Oxford where Morris met so many who changed his history and […]
This will be the second tour to focus principally on libraries, private presses and the often hidden treasures of private […]
From Greenlaw, we head south stopping at Cragside, designed by Richard Norman Shaw who taught the three and then on […]
Mark your calendars and come along with us from September 10th to 19th, 2016 when in the company of Dr. James […]
Our tour will trace many of the events and locations associated with Morris’s hugely prolific career, while also examining his […]