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Kraków

#MuseumMonday: The Museum of the Botanical Garden of the Jagiellonian University

When I visited the Botanical Garden of the Jagiellonian University this summer, I also had to check out the museum that it houses. It would have been ruse not to! The Museum of the Botanical Garden of the Jagiellonian University…

#SciFri: Visiting the Botanical Garden of the Jagiellonian University

The Botanical Garden of the Jagiellonian University is an unusual institution to review because it is simultaneously a historic garden, scientific collection, educational resource, conservation facility, cultural landscape and public attraction. Founded in 1783, it is the oldest botanical garden…

#MuseumMonday: Muzeum Przyrodnicze Instytutu Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt PAN in Kraków

There are natural history museums that overwhelm visitors through monumental architecture, vast galleries and spectacular collections (I’m thinking about a certain museum in South Kensington here), and there are museums whose importance lies somewhere rather different: in the scientific history…