Point of Departure Travel

Uniworld River Cruises

Uniworld is the best of best in river cruising. Experience world-class cruising, award-winning service and included shore excursions that ensure your journey onboard will be as inspiring as your experience onshore.

The Uniworld Difference

  • Intimate, boutique hotel-style cruise ships with an average capacity of 134 guests.
  • Complimentary fine wine, beer and soft drinks during dinner, bottled water in staterooms and 24-hour specialty coffee and tea service.
  • Shore excursions included!
  • Exceptional staff with a ratio of 1 staff member to every 3 guests.
  • All meals prepared fresh daily using only the finest ingredients from local ports of call.
  • Complimentary use of bicycles.
  • Luxurious riverview staterooms with boutique hotel-style beds draped in 100% Egyptian cotton linens, cashmere/wool blankets.
  • Bathrooms stocked with plush robes, thick towels from Christies of Manchester and L’Occitane body products.
Click on this amazing Video to see how to sit back and Relax and let Uniworld take care of you. 
Floriade – world gardening exhibition
April to October 2012 in Venlo
Floriade, officially called World Horticulture Fair, is a big gardening exhibition, which has been organized each ten years since 1960 in the Netherlands. The scale of the fair is enormous as Floriade usually presents almost a hundred flower shows, with participants from all over the world. The fair lasts through changing year seasons, attracting more than two millions of visitors. The next Floriade will take place in 2012, in the region of Venlo.

We will be hosting several amazing River Cruise Adventures visiting Floriade 2012  that benefit the Friends of the Institute. 

Founded in 1922, the Friends of the Institute is a volunteer organization of members of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts dedicated to supporting, enhancing and sustaining the collections, programs and influence of the MIA. Today, the Friends of the Institute is one of the nation’s largest and most active art-museum volunteer organizations.

Friends support the museum in many ways, by providing free public lectures, buses to bring schoolchildren to the museum for docent tours, artwork for the permanent collection, and funding for innovative children’s art education programs. Two major fundraisers, Art in Bloom and Art Perchance, make this support possible.


Art Adventure is a wonderful volunteer program that I have been involved with for the past 10 years! 

We bring art to the classroom and get the students involved in discussion and discovery about the selected pieces of art that are currently on display at the MIA.   Best of all for 7 weeks you are the Art Adventure hero in the classroom and bring art to life for the students who really enjoy this time.    Art Adventure is just one of the many programs created by the Friends of the Institute.  Thank you FRIENDS!   - Sue Thompson (Art Adventure Lady) 

Friends with Benefits 

$200 donation made to Friends of the Institute for every stateroom booked before June 30, 2011.  

               

$100 donation made to Friends of the Institute for every stateroom booked before August 31, 2011An

Join the Friends
 Friends membership is just $45 a year, in addition to the cost of annual museum membership. Any member of the MIA may become a member of the Friends. There are chapters in the Twin Cities, Rochester, and St. Cloud. Friends members enjoy many benefits, including:
  • Friends-only classes and tours
  • The Friends newsletter
  • First notice of volunteer opportunities at the MIA
  • Activities especially for new members
  • The hospitality of the Friends office
For more information, or to join, call or email the Friends Office at (612) 870-3045 or friends@artsmia.org.