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The ground floor of Museum No. 1 opened to the public in 1998 as the Plants+People exhibition, with collections on display in a dozen of the original mahogany cabinets. The exhibition highlights the variety of useful plants around the world and celebrates people's ingenuity and craft skills in using these riches. Displaying 500 specimens from the Economic Botany Collection, the exhibition charts some of the vital uses of plants:- as food and drink maintaining our health and well-being; their use for clothing and ornament; and as fuels, papers, toys and musical instruments.
An illustrated guidebook is available at the Victoria Gate bookshop and from Kew Books.