COLUMBUS, Ohio — Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens is launching a new exhibition that highlights its history while offering a look into its long-term future.

The exhibition, The Conservatory: From Roots to Blooms, is now on display in the Cardinal Health Gallery. Visitors will be guided through the conservatory’s history, the gardens and offerings of today and a glimpse into its future.

It also features “Gardens Forward,” a seven-panel mural by Columbus artist Shelbi “Shel10” Toone. The work interprets the rhythms of nature through layered colors and forms, celebrating the conservatory’s past, present and future.

A historical section highlights key moments, including the construction of the glass greenhouse in 1895, the international AmeriFlora exposition in 1992 and the

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