Travel with friends

If you’re planning on travelling overseas, a tour with the Gallery will ensure you have a memorable and meaningful experience in the company of like-minded travellers.

The Art Gallery Society of NSW offers a wide range of world art tours with destinations as diverse as Valetta and Kashgar. Individual tour itineraries have been carefully designed to include the most fascinating and important art historical, archaeological and architectural sites.

The Gallery’s tour leaders are chosen for their adventurous spirit, their knowledge, experience, ability to communicate and to manage groups. In many countries local guides are essential, and the Gallery has a very good network of international guides who share their intimate knowledge of complex cultural, political and religious sensitivities.

In 2012, for the first time, there are two tours travelling on boutique ships, one sailing the Adriatic and the other, cruising the Mekong River. New destinations include Malta, Central China, Cambodia and Ancient Persia while popular destinations such as Vienna, Prague and Northern Italy are given a fresh look.

Cutting-edge China

Contemporary art in Beijing and Shanghai with John McDonald
A repeat of the sell-out tour of 2011
14 – 26 May 2012
12 days / 11 nights
Estimated from $5500 pp (including airfares)

Cutting-edge China 2012 itinerary (PDF 1.1 MB)

A weekend with MONA

Three tours:
8 – 11 March 2012: with Jenny Birt
9 – 12 August 2012: with Les Moseley
4 – 7 October 2012: with Judy Friend
Each 4 days / 3 nights
From $1690 pp (land only plus airfares)

A weekend with MONA itinerary (PDF 763.5 KB)

Sicily and Malta: from Homer to Caravaggio

With Christopher Allen
7 – 21 April 2012
15 days / 14 nights
From $7850 pp (land only plus airfares)

Sicily and Malta itinerary (PDF 1.1 MB)

Art cities of the Po Valley

With Terence Maloon
26 April – 12 May 2012
17 days / 16 nights
From $8950 pp (land only plus airfares)

Art cities of the Po Valley itinerary (PDF 1.1 MB)

Great gardens of England and Ireland

Chelsea to County Cork with Holly Kerr Forsyth
22 May – 8 June 2012
18 days / 17 nights
From $13,386 pp (land only plus airfares)

Great gardens of England and Ireland itinerary (PDF 686.7 KB)

Adriatic odyssey on the Sea Cloud II

Venice to Dubrovnik with Liz Gibson
10 – 23 August 2012
14 days / 13 nights
From $9990 pp (land only plus airfares)

Adriatic odyssey itinerary (PDF 2.4 MB)

Portugal and Northern Spain

From Lisbon to Bilbao with Brian Ladd
10 – 24 September 2012
15 days / 14 nights
From $6850 pp (land only plus airfares)

Portugal and Northern Spain itinerary (PDF 1.0 MB)

The Silk Road: Xi’an to Kashgar

With Jackie Menzies
27 September – 16 October 2012
20 days / 19 nights
From $8850 pp (including airfares)

The Silk Road itinerary (PDF 2.1 MB)

Cobalt and lustre

Treasures of Ancient Persia with John Tidmarsh
5 – 27 November 2012
23 days / 22 nights
From $8850 pp (land only plus airfares)

Cobalt and lustre itinerary (PDF 1.0 MB)

Mekong River cruise

Saigon to Siem Riep with Christopher Hartney
13 – 27 November 2012
15 days / 14 nights
From $8950 pp (including airfares)

Mekong River cruise itinerary (PDF 1.1 MB)