EXHIBITION AVAILABLE FOR RENTAL The World in a Garden is a new traveling exhibition produced by the Botanic Garden of Smith College. This exhibit explores ways botanic gardens since the early Renaissance have endeavored to represent our increasing awareness of the plant life of other continents and climatic regions. Stunning images from the rich collection of botanical works in the Smith College Mortimer Rare Book Room and the National Geographic image collection showcase how botanists and botanical artists have sought to describe and illustrate the diversity of the known plant world in an age of constant exploration and discovery. See the exhibit online at www.smith.edu/garden/exhibits/worldinagarden In the summer of 1947, when future Smith College Professor of Biology John Burk was eleven years old, he read an article in National Geographic Magazine, entitled “The World in Your Garden,” featuring paintings of familiar garden plants growing in their native regions around the world. At this time the United Nations was in its infancy, and this article illustrated that, despite the recent carnage or World War II, plants had been living together peacefully in our gardens all along. “The World in Your Garden” became a part of Professor Burk’s botanical subconscious, and he recalled it at once when he saw his first bulb show in the Lyman Plant House at Smith College in the spring of 1962. Here in a single greenhouse were crocuses, snowdrops, and fritillaries from Alpine meadows, hyacinths from the shores of the Mediterranean, and tulips from Turkey. The sight of all these plants originating from distant regions, assembled and thriving together at winter’s end, seemed extraordinary to him then, as it still does today. The beautifully illustrated old botanical texts found in Smith College’s Mortimer Rare Book Room provided further inspiration for this exhibition. An essential resource for teaching, particularly in discussions of the development of the science of botany and the art of botanical illustration, these books provide a historical record of plants brought back from the travels of exploration and discovery of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — plants from Asia, Africa, and the New World. Professor Burk was further inspired by his own visits to other botanic gardens, where a common focus is the display of plant life from different continents and biogeographic regions. This fascination with exotic species can easily be seen in many of our home gardens, which today are filled with species originating from around the globe. Sixty years after his encounter with the July 1947 issue of National Geographic, Professor Burk revisited this inspiration through The World in a Garden exhibit. The exhibition is available for rental for $1500 for a two month period (minimum) and $500 for each additional month, plus shipping and insurance. The rental fee includes all panels without any of the National Geographic images. For the four panels with the images from National Geographic there is an additional licensing fee of $500 for two months, and $150 for each additional month. For more information contact: Madelaine Zadik, Manager of Education and Outreach The Botanic Garden of Smith College Lyman Plant House, 15 College Lane Northampton, MA 01063 USA Phone: 413-585-2743, Fax: 413-585-2744 mzadik@smith.edu, www.smith.edu/garden Images of the Exhibition on View at the Botanic Garden of Smith College 1. Currently available 2. Rental Fee: $1500 for a two month period (minimum) and $500 for each additional month. This includes all panels except those with images that require an additional licensing fee from National Geographic. Additional licensing fees from National Geographic: For the four panels with the images from National Geographic there is an additional licensing fee of $500 for two months, and $150 for each additional month. 3. Shipping Costs: The borrowing institution pays all shipping expenses to and from the borrower. 4. Insurance: Insurance value of the exhibition is approximately $10,000, and the borrower is responsible for insurance coverage while the exhibition in under its control. 5. Security Requirements: Security requirements are similar to the “limited security” requirements of SITES. Personnel must be present at all times in the space while the exhibition is open to the public. Supervision by guard, student, volunteer, or receptionist is okay, and they may be performing other duties as well as watching the exhibition. Secure storage for shipping crates is required. The exhibition area must be locked and secure during closed hours. Fire protection must meet all local ordinances. 6. Space and Equipment Requirements: i. Running feet for all the panels (including the National Geographic panels) is about 56 feet, but that does not include much space between panels. At the Botanic Garden at Smith College we used about 92 running feet to display all the panels. ii. Without the 4 National Geographic panels the exhibit is 37 running feet, for which we used 64 feet. 7. Environmental Requirements: i. The exhibition must be displayed indoors. ii. Direct sunlight must be diffused or eliminated to prevent fading. iii. None of the panels or photographs may come into contact with heating or ventilation outlets when it is on display or in storage. iv. The exhibition space must have humidity and temperature controls, to eliminate great fluctuations in either temperature or humidity. For more information contact: Madelaine Zadik, Manager of Education and Outreach The Botanic Garden of Smith College, Lyman Plant House, 15 College Lane Northampton, MA 01063 USA Phone: 413-585-2743, Fax: 413-585-2744 mzadik@smith.edu, www.smith.edu/garden General Information about Exhibition Rental The World in a Garden Produced by the Botanic Garden of Smith College 48" × 48" 20" × 36" 36" × 36" 20" × 36" National Geographic Panels (4 panels which have a separate licensing fee) 68" × 36" 68" × 36" 34" × 36" 24" × 36" 24" × 36" 24" × 36" 24" × 36" 36" × 36" 42" × 36" 34" × 36" 24" × 36" 44" × 36" 40" × 36" 24" × 36" 40" × 36" 40" × 36" 24" × 36"