Silent Book Club at the Missouri Botanical Garden
About this Event
📍 Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden @mobotmuseum
🗓️ Sat, August 22nd, 11am–1pm
📖 Bring: your current read
📣 RSVP via the link in bio
🎟️ Free St. Louis City and County resident admission until 12pm
🙅🏻♀️ No picnicking, chairs, blankets, or outside food/bev
The Literary Garden: The Cultivation of Plants & Gardens in Narratives | On view from May 8, 2026–March 31, 2027
Plants and books have been intertwined in human culture for thousands of years. The Literary Garden explores the myriad ways that societies and cultures represent plants and gardens through literary media, such as herbals, novels, poems, comics, and other stories by highlighting Garden collections, and presenting books, images, objects, and botanical specimens.
Want to dive more into the world of literature? Come back to the Garden to visit the latest exhibition at the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum!
Agenda
🕑: 11:00 AM
Join our group on the benches in the William T. Kemper Lobby
Info: Please arrive at or before 11am. The Garden offers ️free St. Louis City and County resident admission in the mornings. If you arrive later, you may need to pay an entrance fee. Outside food and beverages are not permitted.
🕑: 11:30 AM
Visit to the Sachs Museum
Info: At 11:15, we will depart from the lobby and walk through the gardens to the Museum, where curator Nezka Pfeifer will meet us and give us a tour of the exhibition "The Literary Garden: The Cultivation of Plants & Gardens in Narratives." Please note that food and beverages are not permitted in the Museum.
🕑: 12:00 PM
Read in the gardens
Info: You are welcome to utilize the multitude of benches and lawn areas around the Garden. As you roam, please stay on pathways and leave flowers and plants for everyone to enjoy. You are allowed to stay as long as you'd like! The Garden closes at 5pm.
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