Garden Museum

St Mary-at-Lambeth, Lambeth Palace Rd, London, SE1 7LB Full details & map

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After a three-month refurbishment, the Garden Museum (formerly the Museum of Garden History) re-opened in November 2008 with purpose-built exhibition and education spaces designed by Dow Jones Architects. The Garden Museum's permanent display includes a collection of antique tools exploring garden history. Outside, in the re-creation of a seventeenth-century knot garden planted in honour of John Tradescant, intrepid plant hunter and gardener to Charles I, are the tombs of the Tradescants and Admiral Bligh of the Bounty. Topiaries, old roses, herbaceous perennials and bulbs give year-round interest, and most plants are labelled with their country of origin and year of introduction to the UK.


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The Garden Museum

Until Aug 31 2010 Museums & Attractions

After a three-month refurbishment, the museum (formerly the Museum of Garden History) re-opened in November 2008 with purpose-built exhibition and education spaces designed by Dow Jones Architects...

The Good Life: 100 Years of Growing Your Own

Until Mar 7 2010 Museums & Attractions

This exhibition takes the current vogue for growing your own vegetables as its starting point, looking back through influential moments in the history of self-sufficiency such as John Seymour's 'Th...

Garden Museum details

Address
St Mary-at-Lambeth, Lambeth Palace Rd, London, SE1 7LB

Transport Lambeth North/Waterloo/Westminster 

Telephone

020 7401 8865

Garden Museum website

Prices £6, £5 concs, students & under-16s free

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