Past Special Interest Days Special Interest Day – Wednesday 18 march 2026 – The Seine- River of Light &Artists Delight, Home to Impressionism – presented by Carole Petipher Special Interest Day – Wednesday 12 November – Aspects of Medieval World presented by Nicole Mezey Special Interest Day – Monday 25th November 2024 – ‘The Medici ‘Bankrolling the Renaissance’ by Douglas Skeggs Special Interest Day – Wednesday 20 March 2024 – Art Down Under: From Convict Years to the Modern Era by Valerie Woodgate Special Interest Day – Tues 17 October 2023 – Monochrome to polychrome. How colours have transformed the art of garden design Special Interest Day – Wed 22 March 2023 – Cornard Wood to Fanghorn Forest. British trees in art and literature Special Interest Day – Tues 18 October 2022 – A Journey through 3,000 years of Chinese Art, History and Civilisation Special Interest Day – 29 March 2022 – Once Upon a Time – Children’s Books Through the Ages. Special Interest Day – Wednesday 13 October 2021 10.00 – 15.00 – New York Art and Architecture Special Interest Morning – Tuesday 16 March 2021 10:30 – 13:00 – Masters of the Sea Special Interest Day – Treasures of the Silk Route – Tuesday 19th November 2019 Special Interest day – Antique and Contemporary Jewellery – Wednesday 20th March 2019 Special Interest Day: The Grand Tour – Tuesday 20th November 2018 Special Interest Day – The Ancient Maya – Wednesday 14th March 2018 Special Interest Day: Living with History – Wednesday 22nd November 2017 Special Interest Day: Byzantium – Wednesday 29th March 2017 Under the Open Sky: Newlyn and Lamorna Artists 1880-1940 – Thursday 10th November 2016 Behind the Scenes of the Art World – Thursday 10th March 2016 The Art of Cambodia and Vietnam – Wednesday 14th October 2015 The Gilded Stage ( A Social History of Opera ) – Wednesday 18th March 2015 The Art of Venice : the Lion of the Sea – Thursday 13th November 2014 The Golden Age of Dutch Art – Tuesday 18th March 2014 British Architecture Now – Wednesday 16th October 2013 The Romanovs: Tyrants and Martyrs of Imperial Russia – Thursday 21st March 2013 Pre-Raphaelitism – Wednesday 5th September 2012 The Arts of Japan and Europe – Tuesday 6th March 2012
