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Public Education
Events and Exhibitions
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Kew
Plants+People PermanentLocated in the recently restored Museum No. 1, the Plants+People exhibition highlights the variety of useful plants around the world and celebrates people's ingenuity and craft skills in using these riches. Displaying a small proportion of Kew's diverse Economic Botany Collections, the exhibition charts some of the uses of plants as food and drink, in maintaining our health and well-being, in clothing and ornament and as fuels, papers, toys and musical instruments. Visitors can interrogate touch-screen interactives to find out how much they know about the plants that enter their own daily lives.
Evolution House PermanentImagine a world without plants! The landscape inside the entrance to the Evolution House shows what the surface of the earth probably looked like more than 570 million years ago. As you follow the path through the House you will see how plant forms have changed over hundreds of millions of years from the tiny specimens that first colonised the land through mosses, ferns and giant clubmosses to the conifers and flowering plants that predominate today.
Marianne North Gallery PermanentMarianne North (1830 – 1890) was an artist who travelled around the world painting plants in their natural environment. She only began travelling at the age of 40, after the death of her father. Among some of the countries she visited were the United States, Canada, Jamaica, Brazil, Japan, Java, India, South Africa and Chile – no mean feat for a woman of that era. Marianne North presented her paintings to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and also generously provided a building to house them, designed by her architect friend, James Fergusson. Over 800 of her oil paintings are displayed in the Gallery, arranged in geographical order.