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Exhibitions
Permanent exhibition spaces
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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. The gallery is currently closed for restoration but you can 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.
Shirley
Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art opened in April 2008 and from November
will be displaying three new exhibitions side by side:
Kew's Hidden
Trees
Down Under : Contemporary Botanical Artists from Australia
and New Zealand
Inner Beauty? - Paintings of Medicinal Plants by Chelsea Physic
Garden Florilegium Society
Nash Conservatory hosts a series of changing exhibitions. Currently 'Canopy' a powerful exhibition developed from highly magnified electron micrographs that reveal fascinating high definition photographs of plant structures, by Artist Rob Kesseler. Exhibition closes end of November.
Temporary and Online Exhibitions
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 from May - June 2006.
Henry Moore at Kew Gardens ran from September 2007- March 2008. The powerful exhibition highlit the inspiration that Moore took from nature and his enjoyment of seeing his works in a landscape setting.
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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.
Hortus Nitidissimis - one of the great florilegias of the 1700s, online.
The John Day Scrapbooks create a stunning archive of exquisite watercolours of the newly discovered orchids that were entrancing Victorian society.
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.
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