Museum No. 1 - Kew Gardens - London, Great Britain.
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Museum No. 1 opened in 1857 - Features horticultural & botanic exhibitions displayed over three floors. At the Royal Botanical Gardens - Kew, London, Great Britain.
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Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/13/2016
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Museum No. 1 - Kew Gardens - London, Great Britain.
"Located within Kew Gardens, Museum No.1 houses the Plants+People exhibition. This shows the many fascinating ways in which we depend on plants, including products from the Amazon to Australia; the artistry of Japanese papers and lacquerware; plant-based medicines like quinine and vincristine that helped revolutionise human healthcare; and examples of the raw materials that make our music and feed, clothe and invigorate us. The building was designed by Decimus Burton and first opened to the public in 1857." Text Source: (
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"King George IV proposed a museum be built at Kew around 1820, but it took the efforts of Director Sir William Jackson Hooker to realise this ambition.
Museum No. 1 opened in 1857, with objects classified under the taxonomic groupings of Dicotyledons and Gymnosperms displayed in glazed mahogany cabinets on three floors.
Hooker donated 200 drawings, plus his collection of textiles, drugs, gums, dyes and timbers, and used these as the foundations for a Museum of Economic Botany. Located in the Georgian brick building that is now the School of Horticulture, it was the first of its kind in the country. It opened to the public in 1848. Its collections were later supplemented by exhibits from the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Paris Exhibition of 1855." Text Source: (
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