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Museum national d'Histoire naturelle - Jardin des plantes / Cabinet
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Park-garden-walk
District : Notre-Dame / Quartier Latin
Description :
More of a botanical garden, and formerly the royal garden of medicinal plants created by Louis XIII in 1635, the Jardin des Plantes has been open to the public for some four hundred years. A unique place to discover – rich in exceptional heritage, the sciences, etc. It has something to offer all year round, with alpine flowers, roses, a labyrinth, hothouses and French-style flower beds. Special events take place every Wednesday.
It is a wonderful place to relax and also to learn more about botany and the natural sciences, etc. Special programme of events all year round.
Informations :
Stroll around the statues, the "trees with forty crowns" or Ginkgo bilobas, a Japanese pagoda tree planted in 1747 and around twenty more than 100 year old trees including a Lebanon cedar planted in 1734 by Bernard de Jussieu himself. Climb up to the panoramic viewpoint of the mound, where a Labyrinthe (maze) is built, to take in the view. Groups of school children visit to track down dinosaurs or learn about gardening. Explore the greenhouses, educational vegetable garden, alpine garden, rose garden, iris garden, rock garden and peonies.
Others informations
List of collections :
Animals, Anthropology, Fossils, Sciences, Ethnography, Geology, Everyday items, Stuffed animals, Evolution, Insects, Green plants, Minerals, Oceanography, Prehistory
Opening days and times
Open/Closed :
Jardin des Plantes: open every day 8am - 5.30pm
Cabinet: open 1 April to 30 September, every day except Tuesdays and 1 May, 10am - 5pm; Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 10am - 6pm.
Days of week :
Monday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Open on those public holidays :
1 January | Easter | Easter Monday | 8 May | Ascension Day | Whitsuntide | Whit Monday | 14 July | 15 August | 1 November | 11 November | 25 December
Individual tours
Independant tour :
Garden: free entry.
Cabinet d'histoire: €3 - Reduced tariff €1
Alpine Garden: priced entry for weekends and public holidays from 1 April to 31 October: €1 - Reduced tariff: €0.50 - Ticket sales at the reptile till in the menagerie.
Iris and perennial plants garden: free entry.
Rose and rock garden: free entry.
Free for children :
Garden
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Access:
57 rue Cuvier
75005 PARIS
District : Notre-Dame / Quartier Latin
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Gare d'Austerlitz
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RER : Gare d'Austerlitz
- Bus : 24 - 57 - 61 - 63 - 65 - 67 - 89 - 91
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