Botanical Garden & Museum

In the summer, it's a sea of flowers; in the winter, it's tropical evenings. The Botanic Garden in Berlin will introduce you to the amazing world of plants. Adolf Engler, the first director of Berlin's contemporary Botanic Garden, set out to construct "the world in a garden" in 1889. Today, you may marvel at his magnificent work, which includes a rich diversity of plants ranging from herbaceous and medicinal plants to roses, aquatic and marsh plants, an arboretum with American trees, an Italian garden, an astonishing art nouveau Tropical Greenhouse, and much, much more. The Botanic Garden in Berlin is one of the world's premier gardens, with a collection of 20,000 plant species blossoming on site - a magnet that draws over 500,000 people each year.

Guests may wander and explore the Botanic Garden's 43 hectares. The garden, designed by architect Alfred Koerner between 1897 and 1910, is divided into three sections: the Arboretum (woody plants and rose collection), plant formations from similar geographical regions around the world, and a section dedicated to systematic botany, which contains approximately 1500 plant species. The iconic Tropical Greenhouse is a stunning example of late-nineteenth-century art nouveau glass and steel design. It stands 25 meters tall and is located on the garden's eastern side, towering over the other 14 exhibition greenhouses that surround it.

The Botanic Garden in Berlin also houses the first museum in Central Europe dedicated completely to botany. The old royal plant collection has been housed in the Botanical Museum since 1906. This collection has slowly grown to encompass a magnificent range of models displaying plant components ordinarily undetectable to the naked eye - even a whole forest in a shoe box! You can also learn which plants were provided as funeral items in the Egyptian Pharaohs' graves.

Location: Berlin, Germany