Science & Engineering

The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the tunnel, the barrier, the roofs, and the plaques on the houses where the ideas came.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Three hundred acres of botanic garden, and a walkway through the canopy.

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Also in What’s On and Outdoors & Nature and Literary London.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site and a working scientific institution as much as a garden: the Palm House, the Temperate House - the largest surviving Victorian glasshouse anywhere - the Treetop Walkway out among the branches, and enough ground that a day is not really enough. The glasshouses shut before the gardens do, which catches people out on a long summer evening.

Where
Victoria Gate, Kew Road, Kew, TW9 3AE
Nearest station
Kew Gardens · 5 min walk

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Hours

Monday10:00 – 19:00
Tuesday10:00 – 19:00
Wednesday10:00 – 19:00
Thursday10:00 – 19:00
Friday10:00 – 19:00
Saturday10:00 – 19:00
Sunday10:00 – 19:00

Hours from the page that lists them, checked 3 September 2026.

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