diff --git a/public/app/features/browse-dashboards/components/RecentlyViewedDashboards.tsx b/public/app/features/browse-dashboards/components/RecentlyViewedDashboards.tsx
index ebfbd1d0899..7b2d58fa423 100644
--- a/public/app/features/browse-dashboards/components/RecentlyViewedDashboards.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/browse-dashboards/components/RecentlyViewedDashboards.tsx
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 import { css } from '@emotion/css';
-import { useAsync } from 'react-use';
+import { useState } from 'react';
+import { useAsyncRetry } from 'react-use';
 
-import { GrafanaTheme2 } from '@grafana/data';
+import { GrafanaTheme2, store } from '@grafana/data';
 import { t, Trans } from '@grafana/i18n';
 import { evaluateBooleanFlag } from '@grafana/runtime/internal';
-import { CollapsableSection, Grid, Spinner, Text, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
+import { Button, CollapsableSection, Spinner, Stack, Text, useStyles2, Grid } from '@grafana/ui';
+import { contextSrv } from 'app/core/services/context_srv';
 import { useDashboardLocationInfo } from 'app/features/search/hooks/useDashboardLocationInfo';
 import { DashListItem } from 'app/plugins/panel/dashlist/DashListItem';
 
@@ -12,10 +14,18 @@ import { getRecentlyViewedDashboards } from './utils';
 
 const MAX_RECENT = 5;
 
+const recentDashboardsKey = `dashboard_impressions-${contextSrv.user.orgId}`;
+
 export function RecentlyViewedDashboards() {
+  const [isOpen, setIsOpen] = useState(true);
+
   const styles = useStyles2(getStyles);
 
-  const { value: recentDashboards = [], loading } = useAsync(async () => {
+  const {
+    value: recentDashboards = [],
+    loading,
+    retry,
+  } = useAsyncRetry(async () => {
     if (!evaluateBooleanFlag('recentlyViewedDashboards', false)) {
       return [];
     }
@@ -23,6 +33,11 @@ export function RecentlyViewedDashboards() {
   }, []);
   const { foldersByUid } = useDashboardLocationInfo(recentDashboards.length > 0);
 
+  const handleClearHistory = () => {
+    store.set(recentDashboardsKey, JSON.stringify([]));
+    retry();
+  };
+
   if (!evaluateBooleanFlag('recentlyViewedDashboards', false)) {
     return null;
   }
@@ -31,11 +46,19 @@ export function RecentlyViewedDashboards() {
     <CollapsableSection
       headerDataTestId="browseDashboardsRecentlyViewedTitle"
       label={
-        <Text variant="h5" element="h3">
-          <Trans i18nKey="browse-dashboards.recently-viewed.title">Recently viewed</Trans>
-        </Text>
+        <Stack direction="row" justifyContent="space-between" alignItems="baseline" width="100%">
+          <Text variant="h5" element="h3" onClick={() => setIsOpen(!isOpen)}>
+            <Trans i18nKey="browse-dashboards.recently-viewed.title">Recently viewed</Trans>
+          </Text>
+          <Button icon="times" size="xs" variant="secondary" fill="text" onClick={handleClearHistory}>
+            {t('browse-dashboards.recently-viewed.clear', 'Clear history')}
+          </Button>
+        </Stack>
       }
-      isOpen={true}
+      isOpen={isOpen}
+      // passing empty function to disable controlled mode, we only want to control isOpen when click on title
+      // this avoid entire header section being clickable which can be confusing with the Clear history button
+      onToggle={() => {}}
       className={styles.title}
       contentClassName={styles.content}
     >
@@ -71,14 +94,16 @@ export function RecentlyViewedDashboards() {
 const getStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2) => {
   return {
     title: css({
-      '& button svg': {
+      cursor: 'default',
+      '& [id^="collapse-button-"] svg': {
         color: theme.colors.primary.text,
       },
       h3: {
-        background: `linear-gradient(90deg, ${theme.colors.primary.text} 0%, ${theme.colors.secondary.text} 100%)`,
+        background: `linear-gradient(90deg, ${theme.colors.primary.shade} 0%, ${theme.colors.primary.text} 100%)`,
         WebkitTextFillColor: 'transparent',
         backgroundClip: 'text',
         color: 'transparent',
+        cursor: 'pointer',
       },
     }),
     content: css({
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/panel/dashlist/styles.ts b/public/app/plugins/panel/dashlist/styles.ts
index 5e725daaf2d..c6346480c22 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/panel/dashlist/styles.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/panel/dashlist/styles.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ export const getStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2) => {
   const gradient = `linear-gradient(
     90deg,
     ${colorManipulator.alpha(theme.colors.primary.text, 0.1)} 0%,
-    ${colorManipulator.alpha(theme.colors.secondary.text, 0.1)} 100%
+    ${colorManipulator.alpha(theme.colors.secondary.main, 0.1)} 100%
   )`;
   return {
     dashlistLink: css({
diff --git a/public/locales/en-US/grafana.json b/public/locales/en-US/grafana.json
index 25ad73abe1a..2e86a2a42d3 100644
--- a/public/locales/en-US/grafana.json
+++ b/public/locales/en-US/grafana.json
@@ -3717,6 +3717,7 @@
       "text": "No results found for your query"
     },
     "recently-viewed": {
+      "clear": "Clear history",
       "empty": "Nothing viewed yet",
       "title": "Recently viewed"
     },