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Pre-Booking Enjoy Even More Exclusive Benefits? Save the Date Guide Why not upgrade and 2018 Event Pre-booking enjoy even more exclusive benefits? Save the Date Guide Name and title Telephone Email Membership type I’d like to know more about the benefits of upgrading Please reserve my place on (Where applicable, booking fees to be collected closer to event date) Westonbirt House and Gardens (at cost) Tyntesfield (at cost) Berlin Tour (please use form attached to book directly with ArtsAbroad Limited) For more information please contact: Polly Hawkes Benefactors Compton Verney, Warwickshire CV35 9HZ Patrons [email protected] 01926 645 547 Supporters A look ahead at this See a tour for which you aren’t year’s events eligible? Why not upgrade? 10 February - Park opens for winter 29 June - Private View for: 1-4 November - Overseas trip to walks and activities The Marvellous Mechanical Machine Berlin and Potsdam and Rodney Peppe Berlin has major galleries with art 16 March - Private View for: Benefactors, Patrons and Supporters works from across the ages – Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of starting with masterpieces from the Friendship. English Artist Designers 10 and 11 August - Tyntesfield, SS classical world including the 1922-1942; Great Britian, Bristol legendary bust of Egyptian Queen Created in Conflict: British Soldier In company with Prof Steven Nefertiti in the spectacularly Art from the Crimean War to Today Parissien, visit the distinguished restored Neues Museum, to the and Tyntesfield, a Victorian country Feuerle Collection, a new private art The British Folk Art redisplay house, which serves as a backdrop to museum located in a former WWII Benefactors, Patrons & Supporters the remarkable story of four telecommunications bunker in generations of the Gibbs family. which international contemporary 24 May - Westonbirt Arboretum & Their tale charts the accumulation of art is juxtaposed against Chinese Westonbirt House and Gardens, wealth from the guano trade, antiquities. Tetbury transformation of a Georgian house to a Victorian Gothic masterpiece On this expertly-guided tour, you Westonbirt is the birthplace of the arboretum. Explore the Arboretum and the collection of over 50,000 will have a private tour of Schloss with Gary Webb, Compton Verney’s Victorian architecture built by RS objects. Enjoy a light lunch and learn Tegel, a mid-16th century Head of Landscape & Gardens then Holford between 1862 and 1875 to about the unique conservation Renaissance manor house, as well as enjoy lunch in a nearby historic pub. house his art and literature. Now a project from one of the Curators. national museums and enjoy the After lunch we will visit Westonbirt school and seldom open to the hospitality of the 5-star Ritz-Carlton House, a supreme example of public, we are able to offer an For those who wish to stay another Berlin. exclusive tour of day, we will arrange a visit to the SS Benefactors and Patrons (at cost) the house, formal Great Britain and other waterside attractions such as The Pump House, and pleasure 19 October - Private View for: renowned for gin. grounds, Whistler and Nature including the Benefactors (at cost) Benefactors, Patrons and Supporters Walled Italianate Garden. Benefactors, Patrons and Supporters (at cost) Photos clockwise from above: Westonbirt House, Tyntesfield and the Feuerle Collection in Berlin .
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