Discover Kew's Australia Landscape at the British Museum
Discover Kew's Australia Landscape at the British Museum. Go behind the scenes with the Australia Landscape team blog and find out more about the star plants featured in the landscape.
Australia Landscape is the fourth landscape in a five-year partnership programme involving the British Museum and Kew, which celebrates the shared vision of both institutions to strengthen cultural understanding and support biodiversity conservation across the world.
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Australia Landscape blog
The changing and developing landscape
by: Philippa Edwards, Kew at the British Museum blog 31 May 2011
Project Manager Philippa Edwards, provides an update on how the plants are looking in the Australia Landscape.
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The Landscape starts to take shape
by: Steve Ruddy & Richard Wilford, Kew at the British Museum blog 19 Apr 2011
As the plants start to form a framework, the rockwork nears completion.
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Creating pathways and our first delivery!
by: Steve Ruddy & Richard Wilford, Kew at the British Museum blog 07 Apr 2011
Learn how we prepared the pathways in the Landscape before the first of our deliveries arrived.
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Building of the Landscape has started
by: Steve Ruddy & Richard Wilford, Kew at the British Museum blog 30 Mar 2011
Steve and Richard, alongside Alan the 'rockman', begin the build by plotting out the layout of the Landscape.
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Star plants
Find out more about some of the star plants featured in the Landscape.
- Australian tree fern (Dicksonia antarctica)
- balga (Xanthorrhoea preissii)
- coast banksia (Banksia integrifolia)
- Cootamundra wattle (Acacia baileyana)
- evergreen kangaroo paw (Anigozanthos flavidus)
- Mangles's everlasting (Rhodanthe manglesii)
- Sturt's desert pea (Swainsona formosa)
- Tasmanian blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus)
- tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia)
- Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis)
About the Landscape
From the centre of London, embark on a journey across a whole continent, from eastern Australia’s coastal habitat through the arid red centre to the western Australian granite outcrop, featuring unique and highly endangered plants.
This year's landscape showcases the rich biodiversity of Australia, and how these fragile systems are under threat from land usage and climate change. This is particularly important as Australia has one of the world’s greatest concentrations of geographically restricted species (known as endemics): 90% of Australian plants are found only in Australia.
Visit the Landscape
Experience Kew's Australia Landscape in the heart of London, at the British Museum.
- Date: 21 April – 16 October 2011
- Location: British Museum Forecourt
- Admission: Free
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