Kew Gardens

Summary

Kew Gardens is a botanical garden^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.15% of botanical_garden entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (742 views/month, #1 of 649).^[2]

Key Facts

• Kew Gardens was a member of Biodiversity Heritage Library^[3].
• Kew Gardens was a member of The London Museums of Health & Medicine^[4].
• Kew Gardens is located in London Borough of Richmond upon Thames^[5].
• Kew Gardens is in the country of United Kingdom^[6].
• Kew Gardens is on the body of water River Thames^[7].
• Kew Gardens's image is recorded as Palmhuis.jpg^[8].
• Kew Gardens's instance of is recorded as botanical garden^[9].
• Kew Gardens's instance of is recorded as herbarium^[10].
• Kew Gardens's instance of is recorded as higher education institution^[11].
• Kew Gardens's instance of is recorded as garden^[12].
• Kew Gardens's operator is recorded as Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew^[13].
• Kew Gardens's ISNI is recorded as 0000000099421083^[14].
• Kew Gardens's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 134321671^[15].
• Kew Gardens's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n79128005^[16].
• Kew Gardens's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11865470d^[17].
• Kew Gardens's IdRef ID is recorded as 026400081^[18].
• Kew Gardens's NACSIS-CAT author ID is recorded as DA01265703^[19].
• Kew Gardens's location is recorded as Kew^[20].
• Kew Gardens's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 001210312^[21].
• Kew Gardens's Commons category is recorded as Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew^[22].
• Kew Gardens's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 8048808^[23].
• Kew Gardens's Structurae structure ID is recorded as 10000491^[24].
• Kew Gardens's has part is recorded as Orangery^[25].
• Kew Gardens's has part is recorded as Great Pagoda^[26].
• Kew Gardens's has part is recorded as Temperate House^[27].

Body

Operations

Kew Gardens's operator is recorded as Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew^[13].

Why It Matters

Kew Gardens ranks in the top 0.15% of botanical_garden entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (742 views/month, #1 of 649).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]

Works attributed to it include Curtis's Botanical Magazine^[30], a scientific journal^[31], founded in 1787^[32], written by Joseph Dalton Hooker^[33].