History and administration
Towards the end of the last century, the Botanical Garden founded in 1812
and located in the city centre was, due to various land cessions, reduced
to an area too small to support its intended use. Therefore, a new botanical
garden with an area covering 22 hectares was installed on the outskirts of
Munich in 1914. Bordering onto the new Botanical Garden in the south,
the Nymphenburg palace gardens form a perfect protective barrier.
Today, approx. 14,000 plant species from around the world are cultivated
in the Garden's glasshouse complex and its outdoor area. In 1966, the Botanical
Garden, the Bavarian State Collection for Botany as well as the Institute
for Systematic Botany were all put under the administration of the Munich
university, thus successfully uniting three institutions with similar objectives.
Together with the other Bavarian Natural History Collections and the
affiliated museums, the Botanical Garden is part of a single
administrative unit.