Ethnobotany: The Influences & Delights of Botanicals

Past Exhibit
April 4 - July 1, 2022

Ethnobotany is viewed as the field of study pertaining to the relationship between people and plants. This exhibit ventured through the world of social botany and its cultural influences through some of the collection’s rarest materials, including a flower arranging game from the 1860s and a collection of hand-colored botanical prints from the 1700s.

From Flora Londinensis ...by William Curtis (London: printed for and sold by the author,... and B. White,... 1777)