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York Museum GardensLast updated: August 2005 |  | ||
| Address: | Yorkshire Museum, York, Yorkshire, YO1 2DR Tel: 01904 629745 Fax: 01904 651221 email: web address: Latitude: 53° 57'00''N Longitude: 01° 05'00''W | ||
| 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 | ||
| PERSONNEL | |||
| Chief Executive: | Janet Barnes | ||
| Curator of Geology | Camilla Nichol | ||
| Museum Manager | Helen 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: | |||
| Other sites of collection: | | ||
| WEATHER RECORDS | Records kept | ||
| Temperature: | |||
| Average daily: | |||
| Av. monthly max: | 20.5 °C | ||
| Av. monthly min: | 0.5 °C | ||
| Absolute maximum | |||
| Absolute minimum | |||
| Wind: | |||
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| Rainfall | |||
| Average annual | 613 mm | ||
| Month of maximum | August | ||
| Month of minimum | February | ||
| PLANT COLLECTION | |||
| Families | |||
| Genera | |||
| Species | |||
| Taxa | |||
| Accessions | 870 | ||
| Plants | 4500 | ||
| Notable plants within the collection | |||
| National Champion trees: Fraxinus angustifolia 'Lentiscifolia', Pyrus elaearifolia, Crataegeus oxyacantha Fagus sylvatica 'Miltonensis' | |||
| Geographical area 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 | | ||
| Phenological Garden | |||
| Records of living collection | Kept since 1995 Computerised | ||
| Record System | Word 6 | ||
| 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 of the material: | Signs, supervised garden walks, lectures | ||
| Friends Organisation: | Unknown | ||
| Visitor facilities: | Café, book shop, gift shop | ||
| 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. | |||