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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.
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.
| Monday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
| Sunday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
Hours from the page that lists them, checked 3 September 2026.
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