Check this page for the latest updates on Trips and Visits organised by the Friends of the RWA.
We have an exciting programme of visits planned for 2025 – full details are below.
If you have suggestions for visits, or even better, if you might be interested in joining the Trips and Visits Committee we’d love to hear from you. What we can offer depends on the capacity of a small group of people; we are keen to expand, and very welcoming.
Contact: pat.triggs@blueyonder.co.uk.
Oxford – Thursday 11 December 2025
Our final trip this year on DECEMBER 11th is, by popular request, again to OXFORD. There are so many museums, galleries, and colleges to see; not to mention shops and the Christmas Market, it can be difficult to decide where to spend time. We provide lots of information to help.
You might want to visit the ground-breaking This is What You Get at the Ashmolean Museum: the first exhibition in an established institution of the visual art of Stanley Donwood, Thom Yorke and Radiohead. Or explore the work of Suzanne Treister, pioneer in digital media and internet art, at the Museum of Modern Art..
In contrast, there’s the wonderful collection at the Christchurch Picture Gallery where you could see work by Anthony van Dyck, Franz Hals or the Italian masters. The Museum of Natural History has Microsculpture the insect photography of Levon Bliss. If you have an interest in dance or quilting the Pitt Rivers Museum is the place to go. The cultural dances of Hawaiian Hula and Tahitian ‘Ori are a vital part of religious ceremonies, social gatherings, celebrations and everyday life. The exhibition includes local quilts depicting hula through applique designs, photographs and film of new choreography on the theme of Water – the source of life.
Or you might want to follow in the steps of Harry Potter and visit the film locations in the Bodleaian Library, New College and Christchurch College.
The Floating Circle 