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Home of Charles Darwin - Down House
The great scientist’s country-house home and ‘outdoor laboratory’
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Charles Darwin's home at Down House was also his laboratory. It was here that Darwin spent hours conducting experiments and observing the natural world. Use these objects at home or in the classroom to inspire cross-curricular learning and further your research.
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Members' Event: Watercolour Christmas Card Workshop at Down House
Join local studio The Hive Design Studio at Down House and get creative this Christmas! Learn the art of water colour as you paint your very own collection of festive Christmas cards to take home.
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Prices and Opening times for Home of Charles Darwin (Down House)
Prices and Opening Times for Home of Charles Darwin (Down House)
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Join us for a weekend at Down House celebrating the anniversary of Charles Darwin's most well-known book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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Lie down and look up this October
English Heritage invites visitors to enjoy splendour of historic ceilings in comfort. Participating sites include Osborne, Eltham Palace, Bolsover Castle, Belsay Hall and Wrest Park
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Directions to Down House – Home of Charles Darwin
Directions to Down House – Home of Charles Darwin
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Events at Home of Charles Darwin (Down House)
Down House is a site of outstanding international significance. Here the famous scientist Charles Darwin lived with his family for forty years and worked on his revolutionary theories.
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A rare orchid, closely related to those that informed Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, has been restored to the scientist’s former garden at Down House in Kent by English Heritage. Following two years of careful conservation and management by the charity’s gardeners and volunteers, Down House’s violet helleborine orchid population has doubled in number and is currently enjoying its best flowering season in living memory.
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As home to one of history’s most celebrated scientists, Down House has aroused much interest from both scientists and social historians