Botanical garden of Liege

The botanical garden of Liege is the Botanical garden of the town of Liege, in Belgium.

History

If the first trees of this botanical garden were planted in 1841, the greenhouses and the Institute of Botany and Pharmacy were inaugurated only in 1883. During a hundred years, these buildings of neo-classic style, an undeniable architectural quality (classified in 1994) sheltered the researchers and the teachers of the Université of Liege in these two disciplines and which left them in the years 1970 and 1990.

During its history, the botanical garden of Liege was directed by the Belgian Naturaliste Charles François Antoine Morren. It is in its center that the latter carried out the artificial insemination of the Vanille in 1836.

Today

The old Institute of Botany found a new assignment, in July 2001, by the installation in the western wing, of the House inhabitant of Li2ege of the Environment, sheltering, in addition to a “green shop”, the offices of four associations (AVES, Education- Environment, Hypothèse and Natagora-RNOB). The same wing includes/understands, in addition to a cellar arched, completely restored and arranged, the classified room of practical works. As for the Regional center of Initiation to the Environment (SHOUTS), it settled in the wing, is completely renovated. Lastly, the old Institute of Pharmacy shelters, since 2005, the Institute of higher learning of Architecture Lambert Lombard.

See too

External bonds

Page on the botanical garden
Seen interior of one of the greenhouses of the Botanical garden Panographie d' Alain Hamblenne (panorama QuickTime VR)

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