The Literary Garden: The Cultivation of Plants and Gardens in Narratives

About this event

The upcoming special exhibition at the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum explores the myriad ways that different cultures represent plants and gardens through literary media, such as herbals, novels, poems, comics, and other types of stories. Highlighting Garden collections, and using books, images, objects, and botanical specimens, The Literary Garden highlights how authors and creators depict plants to build our worlds of knowledge, fiction, and fantasy as they rely on a common vocabulary and vision of the plants we know and experience every day. Museum Curator Nezka Pfeifer has also planned a content-related performance series exploring many of the genres represented through plants in the exhibition.

Included with Garden admission.

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