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Glasshouse, palms and planted paths at Geneva Botanical Garden.

Geneva Botanical Garden

Archive record · Historic Monument

Geneva’s botanical institution maintains living collections alongside an herbarium, scientific library, archives and seed, DNA and tissue banks. Its work includes research, conservation of threatened species, training and public education. The garden presents plants from varied ecosystems.

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Geneva Botanical Garden

Geneva’s botanical institution maintains living collections alongside an herbarium, scientific library, archives and seed, DNA and tissue banks. Its work includes research, conservation of threatened species, training and public education. The garden presents plants from varied ecosystems.

Editorial interpretation: the relationship between living plants and preserved material offers a way to read this garden as an institution of knowledge. A collection can be considered through what it conserves as well as what it displays.

Written by Le Roi du Jardin. It sets out what is documented, not what is worth seeing.

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Jardin Botanique de Genève — institution and garden factory-dossier-3f437104b859eb99097cd088. Supplies: summary, editorial, media_review. Reliability 3/5.

Wikidata identity factory-dossier-3f437104b859eb99097cd088. Supplies: summary, editorial, media_review. Reliability 3/5.

Wikimedia Commons photograph and license factory-dossier-3f437104b859eb99097cd088. Supplies: summary, editorial, media_review. Reliability 3/5.

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