The Garden Museum in London, formerly known as the Museum of Garden History, is the only museum in the capital entirely dedicated to the history of gardening and housed in St Mary-at-Lambeth, a church deconsecrated in 1972. A of the first English gardeners, botanists and naturalists, John Tradescant.
The Garden Museum explores and celebrates British gardens and gardening through a collection that includes gardening tools, art and ephemera. Inside the museum has a gallery dedicated to garden design and the evolution of gardening, as well as a recreation of the 17th-century Ark of Tradescant plus three temporary exhibition spaces that examine various aspects of plants and gardens and vary every six months.
The museum, after a major redevelopment, was reopened in 2017 with new spaces for the permanent collection where visitors can then admire historical paintings, tools, objects and artifacts, rooms for events and educational meetings, two new garden projects: on one side the Sackler Garden, designed by Dan Pearson and on the other the front garden designed by Christopher Bradley-Hole.
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