Botany lesson

The Botanical Garden has always been a place of teaching. For university lectures in the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular, teachers were able to exploit the extraordinary botanical “arsenal” on hand: living plants of the outdoor flowerbeds, dried specimens of the herbarium, wax models of fungi, wall charts, woods of every shape and size, seeds of every kind, useful and edible plants, and weeds, from all around the world. Today there is a room of the Botanical Museum housing instruments, seeds in test tubes, tree trunk sections and other items enabling the visitor to learn, observe, recognize and distinguish forms, details and colours of the plant world.