The Herbarium at the Botanic Gardens

3 million dried specimens.
The plant world with all its glory, colour, complexity and diversity is preserved with painstaking care within these grey monotonous units.
Row upon row.
Imagine if inside each door miniature ecosystems existed of where the seeds and plants originated instead of legions of beige folders, so when opening a door you were face with tiny landscapes of joy.
ah.....
the explorers....