View Across The Palm House Pond To Museum No. 1
Directly opposite the Kew Gardens Palm House, on the other side of the pond, stands The Botanical restaurant, Museum No.1. The museum features exhibits related to: world cultures and natural sciences.
This building has existed as part of the gardens in various guises since 1856 and its history provides an insight into a very different side of Kew.
Built in 1856, the museum was the first purpose-made building on site at Kew. In his book The History of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Ray Desmond notes however that the building was not very well received: It was designed by [Decimus] Burton in what Nikolaus Pevsner disparagingly described as “utilitarian minimum-classical” style.
Many visitors were members of the public who were perhaps more used to the gardens as simply a pleasant diversion and now were able to see all the ways in which plants were used for science, trade, and commerce. Researchers and scientists also frequented the museums to find information in support of their area of study. The museum displayed a range of unusual, and even delicious items from Kew’s Economic Botany Collection.
Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world". Founded in 1840, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. It is one of London's top tourist attractions and is a World Heritage Site.
Kew Gardens, together with the botanic gardens at Wakehurst in Sussex, are managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, an internationally important botanical research and education institution that employs over 1,100 staff and is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
The Kew site, which has been dated as formally starting in 1759, although it can be traced back to the exotic garden at Kew Park, formed by Henry, Lord Capell of Tewkesbury, consists of 132 hectares of gardens and botanical glasshouses, four Grade I listed buildings, and 36 Grade II listed structures, all set in an internationally significant landscape. It is listed Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Kew Gardens has its own police force, Kew Constabulary, which has been in operation since 1845.
www.kew.org/read-and-watch/food-glorious-food
View Across The Palm House Pond To Museum No. 1
Directly opposite the Kew Gardens Palm House, on the other side of the pond, stands The Botanical restaurant, Museum No.1. The museum features exhibits related to: world cultures and natural sciences.
This building has existed as part of the gardens in various guises since 1856 and its history provides an insight into a very different side of Kew.
Built in 1856, the museum was the first purpose-made building on site at Kew. In his book The History of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Ray Desmond notes however that the building was not very well received: It was designed by [Decimus] Burton in what Nikolaus Pevsner disparagingly described as “utilitarian minimum-classical” style.
Many visitors were members of the public who were perhaps more used to the gardens as simply a pleasant diversion and now were able to see all the ways in which plants were used for science, trade, and commerce. Researchers and scientists also frequented the museums to find information in support of their area of study. The museum displayed a range of unusual, and even delicious items from Kew’s Economic Botany Collection.
Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world". Founded in 1840, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. It is one of London's top tourist attractions and is a World Heritage Site.
Kew Gardens, together with the botanic gardens at Wakehurst in Sussex, are managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, an internationally important botanical research and education institution that employs over 1,100 staff and is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
The Kew site, which has been dated as formally starting in 1759, although it can be traced back to the exotic garden at Kew Park, formed by Henry, Lord Capell of Tewkesbury, consists of 132 hectares of gardens and botanical glasshouses, four Grade I listed buildings, and 36 Grade II listed structures, all set in an internationally significant landscape. It is listed Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Kew Gardens has its own police force, Kew Constabulary, which has been in operation since 1845.
www.kew.org/read-and-watch/food-glorious-food