Open:

Saturday 10:00–20:00 + Sunday 10:00–17:30

Description:

The British Museum has collaborated with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to create an Indian-themed landscape on the Museum’s west lawn.

The landscape presents a section through the immensely diverse habitats of the Indian subcontinent, taking visitors on a journey from the mountainous environment of the Himalayas, through a temperate region and ending in a sub-tropical zone centred on a pool filled with lotus flowers.

The landscape highlights the significance of plant use in Indian culture – as food and medicine and in trade – and the way plants such as chilli (native to South America) have travelled and become completely indigenised. Finally, the landscape explores the dramatic consequences of habitat destruction in the subcontinent.

This is the second in a series of five planned collaborations with Kew.

Entrance:

Great Russell Street
Nearest postcode: WC1B 3DG

Bus:

7 stops outside + many others nearby

Stations:

Tottenham Court Road, Holborn

Dogs:

Working assistance dogs only

Further information:

• Street Map
• Map of nearby gardens
• Garden's web site
• Printable version