Garden Museum

English Garden Museum

The Garden Museum (formerly known as the Museum of Garden History) in London is Britain's only museum of the art, history and design of gardens. The museum re-opened in 2017 after an 18-month redevelopment project.The building is largely the Victorian reconstruction of the Church of St Mary-at-Lambeth which was deconsecrated in 1972 and was scheduled to be demolished. It is adjacent to Lambeth Palace on the south bank of the River Thames in London, on Lambeth Road. In 1976, John and Rosemary Nicholson traced the tomb of the two 17th-century royal gardeners and plant hunters John Tradescant the Elder and the Younger to the churchyard, and were inspired to create the Museum of Garden History. It was the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of gardening.The Museum's main gallery is on the first floor, in the body of the church. The collection includes tools, art, and ephemera of gardening, including a gallery about garden design and the evolution of gardening, as well as a recreation of Tradescant's 17th-century Ark. The collections give an insight into the social history of gardening as well as the practical aspects of the subject. There are three temporary exhibition spaces which look at various aspects of plants and gardens and change every six months The redevelopment of the Museum, completed in 2017, included two new garden designs. The Sackler Garden, designed by Dan Pearson sits at the centre of the courtyard, replacing the knot garden, and the Museum's front garden is designed by Christopher Bradley-Hole.

In 2006, Christopher Woodward, formerly director of the Holburne Museum in Bath, Somerset, was appointed as the director of the Garden Museum.

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French Garden Museum

Le Garden Museum, anciennement Museum of Garden History, est un musée, créé en 1980, consacré à l'histoire du jardinage en Angleterre. Il se situe sur Lambeth Road (en) à St Mary-at-Lambeth, une église paroissiale désacralisée située près du Lambeth Palace, à Londres.

De l'église, le musée a hérité d'un petit cimetière où sont enterrés Thomas Howard, Agnès Tilney, Elizabeth Howard, John Tradescant l'Ancien, John Tradescant le Jeune ou encore William Bligh.

Il met en avant les outils utilisés par les jardiniers au fil des siècles

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zh 花園博物館

花園博物館（Garden Museum），舊稱花園史博物館，是位於倫敦泰晤士河南岸蘭貝斯路的一座博物館。花園博物館地處蘭貝斯聖瑪麗教堂。聖瑪麗教堂是一座維多利亞時代的建築，在1972年被廢除並曾計劃拆除，但在1976年得到保留並改建為花園博物館。花園博物館是世界首座園藝史博物館。

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