Our Impact
Where Discovery Meets Meaningful Change
Travel that returns revenue to partner institutions and the communities they serve.
What Makes Travel Possible
Every institution independently decides how these funds are used to maximize impact in their communities, from scholarships and access initiatives, exhibitions and programming, conservation and collections care, education materials and public outreach, staff training, and events that deepen the relationship between institutions and their communities.
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Why We Care
Every morning at Arrangements Abroad, we ask ourselves the same question: How does what we do make the world better?
For the guests who travel with us, the answer is in the experience itself. Standing in a museum after hours with a curator who literally wrote the book on its collection. Sitting across the table from a scholar who has spent years thinking about a single artist’s body of work. Connecting more deeply with your home art institution or university after traveling with them abroad.
That is what good travel does, and it’s what we have spent five decades building our programs to deliver.
We choose our partners in the field with the same care. We seek out suppliers who design their operations around improving their home communities, putting local employment and environmental impact first. When a hotel gives back meaningfully to its neighborhood, or a ship reduces its carbon footprint without asking passengers to sacrifice comfort, we take notice.
These choices reflect what we believe travel should be: good for the people on the trip, and good for the places we visit.
Museum Travel Alliance Grants
$100K+
2025 Grant Recipients
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Havana Heritage Foundation
Jim Friedlander, Founder and Chairman of the Havana Heritage Foundation, said, “This program has enabled emerging Cuban architects to work alongside peers from around the world to apply current architectural techniques to 21st-century challenges.”
“I am the product of a rich cultural legacy here in Cuba,” said 2019 recipient Alain León Pavón. “Therefore, I am very passionate about the preservation and evolution of my home city. The current process of transformation in Havana is challenging, and there is still so much to do. As the recipient of the Havana Heritage Foundation Traveling Grant, I hope to gain further skills to maintain our city’s heritage for future generations.
”The HHF has also participated in the ongoing restoration of Havana’s oldest convent, the 17th-century Convento de Santa Clara de Asís, a project spearheaded by the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana. Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, HHF has shipped over 4,000 books on art, architecture, and historic preservation to Cuba, where they will be made available in the convent to help educate future generations of architects.
Your institution can be part of our story.
Museums, universities, and cultural organizations of every size partner with Arrangements Abroad, the Museum Travel Alliance, and Significant Journeys to build travel programs that directly support their missions.
To learn more about starting a program with us: