Paris, Amsterdam, Munich: The best art exhibitions accessible by train in 2023

Fancy catching the largest ever Vermeer exhibition? How astir an immersive acquisition that fuses anime, video games and Buddhism?

2023 is shaping up to beryllium different bumper twelvemonth for art exhibitions successful Europe. There’s ne'er been a amended clip to capable your calendar with originative adventures - and to nexus up your assemblage visits by rail.

Train connections are increasing ever amended and faster, offering affordable, sustainable and scenic question to immoderate of the world’s astir revered creation hubs.

From Paris to London, present are immoderate of our favourite exhibitions worthy travelling for this year.

Hightail it to Vermeer’s biggest ever accumulation astatine Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Dutch Baroque Period creator Johannes Vermeer is champion known for his Girl With A Pearl Earring and bonzer usage of earthy light. This year, the Netherland’s nationalist Rijksmuseum successful Amsterdam is showcasing the largest ever accumulation of his works.

There are 28 masterpieces connected show. Expect to spot Vermeer’s depictions of 17th period home life, specified arsenic The Milkmaid, and religious works similar Christ successful the House of Mary and Martha.

The accumulation runs until 4 June 2023 and is highly popular, truthful beforehand booking is essential.

Amsterdam is good connected to bid lines crossed Europe. From London, the Eurostar takes little than 4 hours. From Paris, the Thalys high-speed bid takes astir 3 hours and 20 minutes. ICE International connects the metropolis with Germany and Switzerland.

Explore the quality of our fragile satellite astatine the Bourse de Commerce, Paris

Avant l’orage (Before the Storm) fills the striking rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce successful Paris with an installation by Vietnamese-Danish creator Danh Vo. Through uprooted trees supported by timber frames, helium explores themes of decease and our narration with nature.

Immersive exhibits by the likes of French creator Pierre Huyghe capable the museum, nodding to the seasons and fragile ecosystems that govern our world.

The accumulation runs until 11 September 2023, with Vo’s installation replaced with 1 by British-German creator Tacita Dean successful June.

Paris is 1 of Europe’s champion connected cities by train. Reach it from Brussels successful conscionable 1 hr and 20 minutes oregon from Amsterdam successful 3 hours and 20 minutes connected the high-speed Thalys trains. The Eurostar from London to Paris takes 2 hours and 20 minutes. TGV-Lyria high-speed trains instrumentality conscionable implicit 3 hours from Geneva, portion high-speed TGV trains from Milan instrumentality astir 7 hours.

While you’re successful Paris, you tin besides drawback the Manet / Degas Exhibition astatine Musee d'Orsay, which is unfastened from 28 March to 23 July. An immersive grounds by 20th period masters Marc Chagall and Paul Klee is besides moving astatine Atelier des Lumières until January 2024.

Embrace sustainable question astatine Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Love sustainable travel? Then hop connected the bid to Munich for The Bicycle Cult Object – Design Object exhibition. Showcasing 70 of the astir antithetic and breathtaking bicycle designs successful history, it embraces bicycles not lone arsenic immunodeficiency to health, mobility and sustainability but arsenic cult plan objects worthy of being viewed arsenic works of art.

The accumulation is unfastened until 22 September 2024, giving you plentifulness of clip to get determination - truthful wherefore not instrumentality the scenic route? The high-speed ICE bid from Berlin to Munich takes little than 4 hours, a nonstop TGV from Paris takes astir six hours, and the NightJet sleeper from Amsterdam takes astir 11 hours.

Catch 1 of the world’s top ever sculptors astatine the V&A Museum, London

The exceptional sculptures of Italian Renaissance maestro Donatello are presently connected amusement astatine London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Explore astir 130 marble, bronze and overgarment works by the revered creator and his 15th period contemporaries, mapping his power connected consequent generations.

The London Eurostar offers nonstop connections to Paris, Brussels, Lille, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. From these cities, you tin link to different destinations successful France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Germany connected TGV services, the soon to motorboat European Sleeper and others.

While you’re successful London, cheque retired The Rossettis accumulation astatine the Tate Britain. Running from 6 April until 24 September, it follows the romance and radicalism of the 19th period Pre-Raphaelites.

Enter a satellite of video games and doctrine astatine Kunsthalle Basel

Anime, video games and Buddhism collide successful ‘LuYang Vibratory Field’, an immersive accumulation by the eponymous Shanghai-born, Tokyo-based artist. Enter into LuYang’s originative caput astatine Switzerland’s Kunsthalle Basel until 21 May.

TGV-Lyria precocious velocity trains nexus Paris and Basel successful astir 3 hours. From there, onwards question to different parts of France, London, Brussels and much is possible. SBB links Amsterdam and Basel successful nether 7 hours, and the NightJet sleeper via Frankfurt successful 10 hours.