Stories

Museums and cultural institutions hold, tell and teach our stories. They provide a mirror where we can study our reflection. The narrative needs to be alive and responsive as well as timeless and grounding.
V&A Museum
Natural History Museum
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Wakehurst Place
Hyde Park Corner
City of London Cemetery
Longwood Gardens
Villa La Pietra
Oxford Botanic Garden
Moscow Apothecaries’ Garden
Maggie’s Swansea
Solovki

'The thought of what was here once and is gone forever will not leave me as long as I live. It is as though I walk knee-deep in its absence.'

Wendell Berry, The World-Ending Fire, 2017

'Landscape has a secret and silent memory, a narrative of presence where nothing is ever lost or forgotten.'

John O’Donohue, Anam Cara, 1997
© Kim Wilkie 2025