Kew Gardens news

VisitEngland has published its Annual Survey of Visits to Visitor Attractions for 2022, showing that while visitation numbers across England continued to recover through 2022, ... More

Kew Gardens has established a "living laboratory" at its wild botanic garden at Wakehurst, UK. The move is part of a research project to explore ... More

Broadcaster and natural historian, Sir David Attenborough, will front a new virtual app which will allow users to explore exotic plants and animals in their ... More

Inspired to encourage children to develop a lasting relationship with plants and nature, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London is all set to open its ... More

The winners of the Museums + Heritage Awards were announced in London last night (15 May), with museums large and small being honoured and Sir ... More

Kew Gardens in London has completed the largest restoration project in its entire history: a redevelopment of its iconic Temperate House, now home to 10,000 ... More

Kew Gardens has announced an opening date for its historic Temperate House, which has been closed while undergoing a five-year renovation. The southwest London attraction ... More

The architect David Marks, co-founder of Marks Barfield Architects, has died at the age of 64 following a long illness. Marks, best-known as the co-designer ... More

Sustainability was a recurring topic in the news this week. Former US presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter met in Atlanta to discuss sustainable cities ... More

Wolfgang Buttress’ multi-sensory celebration of bees will open to the public this Saturday (18 June) in London’s Kew Gardens. The Hive is a pavilion inspired ... More

The Hive – Wolfgang Buttress’ award-winning multi-sensory pavilion – is to be given a new home within London’s Kew Gardens. The structure was the centrepiece ... More

A number of attractions have seen a big spike in visits owing to a fine Summer in 2013 according to the Association of Leading Visitor ... More

Image: The Temperate House at Kew Gardens Richard Deverell has been named director of London's Royal Botanic Gardens by the Kew Board of Trustees, with ... More

A new London 2012 motto - Inspire a generation - has been announced by organisers as part of celebrations marking the 100-day countdown until the ... More

OOKL, a handheld multimedia guide developed by Science.Ecology.Art Limited (the SEA), is also taking interactivity in an interesting new direction. The guide, currently in use ... More

The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in west London has seen the appointment of Mr Marcus Agius as chair and ... More

Cunard has announced that the new 92,000-tonne Queen Elizabeth ocean liner, the second largest vessel ever built by the company, is to enter service on ... More

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has unveiled its plans for the London 2012 Olympic Park. Designed by LDA Design and Hargreaves Associates, the 100-hectare park, ... More

ISPAL likes to acknowledge innovative and exciting new ideas, or developments, and therefore we feature this week the Kew Gardens’ announcement that the London Eye ... More

Kew Gardens Trustees have announced that the London Eye architects are to build a spiral walkway to take visitors 60ft aloft into the tree canopy ... More

Ten former mining sites in Devon and Cornwall have been given World Heritage status by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, following ... More