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23 ore fa · BOOK AHEAD AND SAVE 15%. You can book online until 8.45am on the day of your visit. You can still buy a ticket when you arrive, but you won’t get the discount. Tickets are valid all day, so you can arrive at any time and stay for as long as you like within our opening hours. Tickets are free for members. You can still book online if you’d ...
Down House belonged to the great scientist Charles Darwin, who lived here for 40 years until his death in 1882. After moving to the house in 1842, Darwin and his wife, Emma, remodelled the house and its extensive gardens, which Darwin used as an open-air laboratory. It was here that Darwin developed his theory of evolution by natural selection ...
Charles Darwin’s study. Downe remained a farming village into the 20th century, producing fruit and vegetables for the London markets. With its isolated location, the village attracted walkers and cyclists to its tearooms and pubs. Down House became a Darwin museum in 1929 and was acquired by English Heritage in 1996.
With a unique place in the history of science and evolution, Down House was Charles Darwin’s family home – and today it is a site of outstanding international significance. Step into the very rooms where Charles Darwin worked and lived, including the study where he wrote On the Origin of Species, and trace his story with a fascinating exhibition about his life and work.
Discover Charles Darwin’s ‘living laboratory’ at Down House, the family home where he developed many of his ground-breaking ideas on evolution and natural selection. Tread the same paths as Darwin along the sandwalk and marvel at the collection of carnivorous plants in the glasshouses, in the beautiful surroundings of the Kent countryside.
Early Life. Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on 12 February 1809, and baptised at St Chad's in Shrewsbury on 15 November of that year. [1] He was the second son of Dr Robert Darwin, and his wife Susannah, (the daughter of Josiah Wedgwood, Unitarian pottery industrialist). He came from a family of inquiring minds.
19 set 2018 · So our own Darwin House is named after Charles Darwin and for forty years it was a happy home to the Darwin family - it is said to have been an open air laboratory and where he wrote The Origin of the Species in 1859. So the house went on to become another very happy home, to Miss Willis, her staff and her pupils.
