Botanical Garden Collection
Botanical Garden Collection
The Botanical Garden emerged from the teaching garden of the Oldenburg Teachers' College founded in 1882 and has been part of the University of Oldenburg since 1976. The garden is divided into two locations: While many thousands of visitors* per year find recreation and enjoy the beauty of the plant diversity in the public show garden and show greenhouses on Philosophenweg, the non-public part on the Wechloy campus is intended for breeding and university teaching and research tasks.
The Botanical Garden's collection comprises around 4500 species of living plants on an area of approximately 5 hectares. These include plants from all continents, from the humid tropics, from deserts and particularly rare plants from Lower Saxony. It also houses a collection of around 1500 different seeds for educational purposes.
Interview with Dr Klaus Bernhard von Hagen, Custodian of the Botanical Garden
The curator of the Botanical Garden's collection, Dr Klaus Bernhard von Hagen, set up a seed collection with around 1500 objects for illustrative purposes. The Seychelles nut is a valuable part of this collection due to its size and special shape, and above all its history and origin.
The interview was conducted as part of the exhibition "How We Know - Interfaces between Research and Everyday Life". Students from the Museum and Exhibition Master's degree programme presented the exhibition at The Smart House Oldenburg from 11 May 2019 to 31 May 2019.