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Old Paper Roots: How to Grow a Library
The Old Library, St John’s College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 1TP
Saturday 14 Sep 2024
Sat 14 Sep:1000-1600; Free Entry.
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Old Paper Roots: How to Grow a Library
Heritage Open Day: St John’s College, alma mater of the great botanist Erasmus Darwin, invites you to the stunning 17th-century Old Library for an exhibition on paper and plants, held within a veritable forest of oak bookcases. The beautiful smell that comes from centuries-old books is the aroma, in part, of slowly decaying paper: of plant matter having a long life after death. St John’s College, alma mater of the great botanist Erasmus Darwin, invites you to the stunning 17th-century Old Library for an exhibition on paper and plants, held within a veritable forest of oak bookcases.