York Museum Gardens
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| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | York Museum Gardens |
| Yorkshire Museum, York, Yorkshire, YO1 2DR | |
| Tel: 01904 629745 | |
| Fax: 01904 651221 | |
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| Web site: | |
| Latitude: 53° 57' 00" N / 53.9588089 | |
| Longitude: 01° 05' 00" W / -1.0810877 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1827 |
| Ownership: | City of York Council; managed by York Museums Trust |
| Garden code: | YRK |
| Umbrella organisation: | PlantNetwork, National Heritage Programme |
| i.e. PlantNet, BGCI, NCCPG; ICCP etc. | |
| Personnel | |
| Please include actual titles in brackets after the name i.e. Owner, Director/Manager, Curator/Head gardener. If you have other administrative staff, i.e. taxonomists, education officers etc. please add extra rows. | |
| Chief Executive: | Janet Barnes |
| Curator of GeologyCamilla Nichol: | |
| Museum ManagerHelen Young: | |
| Contact person: | Helen Young |
| Total Staff: | 3 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | |
| Collections: | |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 15 m |
| Soil type: | Sandy loam, neutral to alkaline |
| Aspect: | South |
| Total area: | 4 ha |
| Area heated: | |
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| Weather records | Records kept |
| Temperature | |
| Average daily: | |
| Av. monthly max: | 20.5 °C |
| Av. monthly min: | 0.5 °C |
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| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 613 mm |
| Month of maximum: | August |
| Month of minimum: | February |
| Plant collection | |
| Number of families: | |
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| Accessions: | 870 |
| Plants: | 4500 |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| National Champion trees: Fraxinus angustifolia 'Lentiscifolia', Pyrus elaearifolia, Crataegeus oxyacantha Fagus sylvatica 'Miltonensis' | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Acer, Aesculus, Aucuba, Fagus, Fraxinus, Ilex, Narcissus, Rosa, Pyrus, Taxus, Tilia | |
| Special collections: (i.e. ICCP International Conifer Conservation Programme; IPGRI International Plant Genetic Resources Institute; NCCPG National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens; SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest) | |
| Special collection 1: For each collection please give Nos. of Genera, species, taxa, accessions & plants. Also any official status. | |
| Special collection 2: Please add a row for each collection. | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1995 Computerised |
| Record System: | Word 6 |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | Approximately 43 000 wild collected and cultivated specimens |
| Library: | 100 items |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Unknown |
| Identifications: | Undertakes free identifications for the general public |
| Teaching and Education: | Potential for primary, secondary, higher and public education |
| Interpretation: | Signs, supervised garden walks, lectures |
| Friends Organisation: | Unknown |
| Visitor facilities: | Café, book shop, gift shop |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | Free |
| Visitors per year: | 500,000 |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: Dawn-dusk |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| The Museum Gardens were founded by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. They were laid out to a design by Naysmith in the 1840s as a pleasure ground for members of the Society and to operate as a botanical and scientific garden. The Gardens are now on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. | |
| Location map | |
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