Map of activities

The Botanical Garden's 150th anniversary

Passage between the museum and the Botanical Garden

Temporary entrance / exit

We are renovating the paths of the Botanical Garden

Entrance / exit

Tour information and tickets

Find information about the activities of the day and get your free tickets for the mini-tours here. Tickets for the tour are free and can be picked up the day off on a first-come, first-served basis.

You can collect tickets for the mini-tours from 10:00 when the info booth opens.

Mini-tour of the garden

Learn about everything from the garden's history, sculptures and plant collection to the garden's future, the gardeners' everyday life, or how the garden is important for research.

Tickets for the tour are free and can be picked up the day off on a first-come, first-served basis.

Mini-tour behind the scenes

Join a member of the collection-team on a visit to the historic botanical collection at the Botanical Museum or the gardeners on a visit to their greenhouses.

Tickets for the tour are free and can be picked up the day off on a first-come, first-served basis.

Meet a gartner in the Rock Garden

The gardeners tell selected stories about the exciting plants they look after and about life as a gardener in the Botanical Garden.

Meet a gartner in the Butterfly House Mød en gartner i Sommerfuglehuset

The gardeners tell selected stories about the exciting plants they look after and about life as a gardener in the Botanical Garden.

Admission to the Butterfly House requires a ticket.

See ticket prices for the Palm House

Meet a gartner in the Palm House

The gardeners tell selected stories about the exciting plants they look after and about life as a gardener in the Botanical Garden.

Admission to the Palm House requires a ticket.

See ticket prices for the Palm House

Meet a scientist

Go on an algae hunt, find micro-life in the lake and examine it under a microscope. You can also hear about yeast hunting in the garden and how the yeast is used in beer brewing and for research at the Carlsberg Laboratory.

Meet a botanist

Come to the launch of the podcast 'Planternes stemme', learn more about the history and use of medicinal plants or have a chat about Danish plants and habitats.

Exhibition and talks about colonial botany

Find out more about the cultural significance of the 400-year-old herbarium collection, and listen to experts talk about colonial botany in India, West Africa, the Caribbean and Greenland.

Help the scientists

Stop by the museum's Citizen Science stand, learn more about nature and biodiversity and help the scientists themselves to collect knowledge and data about nature.

Only open between 11–13.