IN BLOOM EXHIBITION CURATORS' TALK

With Francesca Leoni, Shailen Bhandare & DaeWha Kang

Thu 9 Apr 2026, 2–3pm
At the Museum and online
Shaped by nature purple and green logo

This event is in-person at the Museum in the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom.

Tickets are £8 each. Booking is essential.

Tickets coming soon.

With Francesca Leoni and Shailendra Bhandare, co-curators of the In Bloom exhibition, and DaeWha Kang, exhibition designer

Join Dr Francesca Leoni and Dr Shailendra Bhandare, the co-curators of our major spring exhibition, In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World, and exhibition designer DaeWha Kang, as they unveil the many stories surrounding some of Britain's most popular blooms, from tulips and roses to poppies and orchids.

 

Three artworks from the In Bloom exhibition featuring a Dutch still life painting of flowers, a watercolour of poppy seeds, an oil painting of a young woman holding orchids

Selected artworks featured. Left: Flowers in an Ornamental Vase, after Mignon. Centre: Poppy Seed Pod, Brigid Edwards. Right: Orchids, Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema

 

Following risky individual ventures and corporate enterprises, these plants will take us from ships and tropical forests to nurseries, botanic gardens and elegant parlours, revealing how their collecting, study and trade dramatically transformed the world we live in.

BOOKING

This event takes place at the Museum and online via Zoom.

Tickets are £8 each. Booking is essential. 

TICKETS COMING SOON

If you have any questions, please email us at publicprogrammes@ashmus.ox.ac.uk