Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden

Category

Library Item

Item no

51612

Title

Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh with monkey installation

Artist / maker

Magee, Gregg

Date

2021

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The 10 metre high inflatable Golden Monkey was created by Australian ecological artist Lisa Roet and was installed on Inverleith House as part of its transformation into 'Climate House', a programme of visual art aiming to draw attention to the global climate crisis.

The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, is situated ¾ of a mile north of Princes Street, almost immediately to the north of the Stockbridge Colonies. Originating as a 17th century 'physic garden' located near Holyrood Abbey the gardens moved to their current site in Inverleith in 1820. The gardens expanded over the subsequent decades, incorporating Inverleith House and its grounds in the late 1870s. Notable features of the garden include the Victorian Temperate Palm House, the tallest of its kind in Britain, the Rock Garden with its range of Alpine plants, and the Chinese Hillside section with its outstanding collection of Chinese plants.

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