Our new Reading Room display ‘Female Figures and Fungi: A Foray into the Mycological Past’ opens today! Come and learn more about the lives and careers of pioneering women in fungi, with many materials on display for the first time. Accessible from 10am-4pm Tuesday to Thursday until 26 August.
Happy #InternationalArchivesDay! To celebrate, the team wanted to share some favourites from the collections, covering Eleanor Armitage's notebooks, William Burchell's colour charts, and John Fraser's poetry. The collections are always full of surprises.
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The Archives team have been running a series of two-part workshops for participants to engage with collections being catalogued for the #ArchivesRevealed project. Participants have produced artistic responses to collections and discussions with help from arts facilitator Dr Anushka Tay. /1
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We look forward to working with participants later this month to co-curate our free project exhibition, which will open in the Reading Room in the Herbarium & Library building on Kew Green later this year. /2
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🌈To celebrate Pride 2026 we have this section of a painting featuring an image of a rainbow over Niagara Falls by artist Marianne North, 1871! #PrideMonth #Pride2026 #HappyPride
A peek into the Library and Archives Conservation Studio reveals one of our colleagues demounting this beautiful Lilian Snelling illustration after exhibition. #KewLA
Celebrating our wonderful Library and Archive volunteers this week who are generous in sharing their expertise and offer invaluable help with our collections. Here one of our volunteers handles some of the South Asian illustrations. #VolunteersWeek #KewLA
The catalogue for the current exhibition in the Gardens - 'Henry Moore: Monumental Nature' has some excellent contributions by Kew staff including our very own Illustrations Curator - Lynn Parker, whose chapter on 'Drawing on nature' features items from the Library and Archives. #KewLA #HenryMoore
On #CleanAirDay, we’re celebrating the London Plane (Platanus x hispanica) which is particularly resistant to pollution and contributes to a better environment by absorbing toxins in the atmosphere. #KewLA
