About this Event
📍 Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden @mobotmuseum
🗓️ Mon, October 12th, 1–4pm
📖 Bring: your current read
🎟️ Garden admission required (free for members)
🙅🏻♀️ No picnicking, chairs, blankets, or outside food/bev
The Literary Garden: The Cultivation of Plants & Gardens in Narratives
On view until March 31, 2027
Plants and books have been intertwined in human culture for thousands of years. The Literary Garden explores the myriad ways that societies and cultures represent plants and gardens through literary media, such as herbals, novels, poems, comics, and other stories by highlighting Garden collections, and presenting books, images, objects, and botanical specimens.
Agenda
🕑: 01:00 PM
Join our group on the benches in the William T. Kemper Lobby
🕑: 01:30 PM
Visit to the Sachs Museum
Info: Explore the new literary exhibition at the Sachs Museum with curator Nezka Pfeifer, and then find your favorite spot in the garden to read.
🕑: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Read in the gardens
Info: You are welcome to utilize the multitude of benches and lawn areas around the Garden. As you roam, please stay on pathways and leave flowers and plants for everyone to enjoy. You are allowed to stay as long as you'd like! The Garden closes at 5pm.
Event venue & nearby stays
Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, United States
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