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Exhibitions

 

Temporary and Online Exhibitions

Henry Moore at Kew Gardens, 15 September 2007 – 30 March 2008. This powerful exhibition will highlight the inspiration that Moore took from nature and his enjoyment of seeing his works in a landscape setting.

Kew Magazine Photography Exhibition is an opportunity to see, online, some of Kew magazine's photographs in their full glory and through them discover more about Kew.

John Day Scrapbook - Sophronitis grandiflora

The John Day Scrapbooks create a stunning archive of exquisite watercolours of the newly discovered orchids that were entrancing Victorian society.

Gardens of Glass: Chihuly at Kew was the first exhibition of its kind to be held in Europe, with its spectacular sequence of organically shaped glass sculptures set throughout Kew’s landscape and inside its glasshouses. The exhibition was held from May 2005 to January 2006.

Artists' Kew is an exhibition of original contemporary artworks which celebrate the Royal Botanic Gardens and its surroundings in Kew. Still available online, the exhibition was open to the public at Kew May - June 2006.

Caught in Time casts a new light on the plants of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), using Angela Easterling’s photograms of native plants to bring out their hidden charms.

Permanent exhibitions

Marianne North - Pitcher Plant of Java

Marianne North Gallery at Kew. This 19th century gallery houses 832 of Marianne North's oil paintings, showing over 900 species of plants - a unique memorial to an equally unique woman. See our online exhibition of Marianne North paintings. Help to restore a painting and save our heritage.

Plants+People at Kew, highlighting the variety of useful plants around the world and celebrating people's ingenuity and craft skills in using these riches.

Millennium Seed Bank Exhibition at Wakehurst Place. Vistors can discover why and how seeds are collected and stored, and watch seed research and conservation in action in the laboratories through glass walls.

Coming soon...

Shirley Sherwood gallery of Botanical Art opens in April 2008.  Inaugural Exhibition will run from April - October 2008.

Garden Photographer of the Year exhibition will be held at Kew from May to September 2008.  

See also

Hortus Nitidissimis - one of the great florilegias of the 1700s, online.

 

 
 

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