All activities are free and take place continuously throughout the day.
Mini tours of the Botanical Gardens
Join scientists, botanists or gardeners on guided tours outside in the garden. You can hear about everything from the garden's history, sculptures and plant collection to the garden's future, the everyday routine of the gardeners or how the garden is important for research. Get your tickets on the day after a first-come, first-served basis.
Mini tours behind the scenes
Join a museum staff member on a visit to the historical botanical collection at the Botanical Museum or join the gardeners on a tour to their propagation greenhouses. Get your tickets on the day after a first-come, first-served basis.
Meet a gardener
Join us as the gardeners take you to their own work areas in the garden. Hear specially selected plant stories about the exciting plants they care for and about life as a gardener.
Meet a researcher
Join the researchers on algae hunting, find microlife in the lake and examine it under the microscope. You can also hear about yeast hunting in the Botanical Garden and how it is used in beer brewing and research at the Carlsberg Research Laboratory.
Meet a botanist
Hear about the botanist's life full of plants. You can attend the launch of the podcast 'Planternes stemme' or learn more about the history and use of medicinal plants. We will also have a chat about Danish plants and habitats in the Botanical Garden's Danish quarter, which is currently being laid out this year.
The podcast 'Planternes stemme' will be launched at 11.30–12.30, where we celebrate with a small glass. Come and join us and test your knowledge of Danish plants.
Pop-up exhibition and talks about Danish colonial botany
What are herbariums cultural meanings and colonial pasts? The Danish national herbarium contains 400 years of shared global histories of nature in the form of preserved plants. Hear the team behind 'Field/Work in the Archive' share their historical research and experience a fascinating pop-up exhibition in Danish, English, Tamil and Greenlandic, as well as short expert talks about Danish colonial botany in India, West Africa, the Caribbean and Greenland.
Talks:
- 11.30–11.45: Olivia Struve: Johan Eugenius (1870-1934), Greenland
- 12.30–12.45: Jens Soelberg: Poul Egede Book Herbarium (1739), Greenland
- 13.30–13.45: Signe Mellemgaard: Hans West (1758-1811), the Danish West Indies
- 14.30–14.45: Niklas Thode Jensen: Johan Gerhard König (1728-1785), Tranquebar, India
- 15.30–15.45: Daniel Hopkins: Peter Thonning (1775-1848), Guinea/Ghana
Help the museum's researchers
Stop by the museum's Citizen Science projects, learn about nature and biodiversity and even help researchers gather knowledge and data about nature.
Botanical workshop for children of all ages
Visit the botanical workshop and get your hands on the ground. Plant your own cuttings, sow your own seeds, make your own herbarium sheet or get up close to flowers and plants in the drawing workshop, where you can make your own botanical drawings or color line drawings.
Quiz along
Are you smart about plants and botany? Try our various botanical quizzes for all ages.
Explore the Botanical Gardens on your own
Experience the garden in a new way with a butterfly poster, bird poster or go hunting for the garden's birthday plants.
