05.06.2007
Captain Cook Memorial Museum Whitby Special Exhibition for 2007:
Ci-media designs the visual material for the Cook Memorial Museum’s annual exhibitions. Invariably a delightful experience, this gives us a privileged insight into snippets of our national heritage, through access to original archive material from around the world.
At risk of blowing our own trumpet, we think it’s well worth a visit!:-
Botanical Endeavours: Sir Joseph Banks and his legacy
Joseph Banks sailed with Captain James Cook on the Endeavour and was at the very centre of an empire of botanical discovery, cultivation and exchange.
He ended as adviser to King George III, directing activities at Kew Gardens, turning it into an international centre for plants and their cultivation.
He encouraged economic uses of plants, helped to found agricultural and horticultural societies, and continued to shape events in the southern Pacific long after his voyage there, even beyond his own lifetime. With the help of generous loans from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Natural History Museum and others, the museum has brought together a fascinating collection of artifacts and illustrations.
These can be seen in the exhibition gallery in the museum’s Attic Room in Grape Lane Whitby.
