Botanical Garden

The Botanical Garden is an outdoor museum of nature, a place of tranquil beauty in the historical centre of the city, and a unique scientific department of the University. Rare plants from all over the world — North America, Japan and China, the Far East, Central Europe — are displayed here; many of them are conservation dependent

	Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Judgment”
	Flowers are free natural beauties

Working hours

History

Flora & Fauna

Outdoor museum of nature

The Garden’s mission is to maintain plant biodiversity worldwide, preserving a collection of rare, valuable and fascinating species

Working hours

Arboretum
Open seven days a week

November — February 10:00 — 17:00
March, October 10:00 — 18:00
April, September 10:00 — 19:00
May — August 10:00 — 20:00

Greenhouse
Tuesday — Thursday, Saturday — Sunday

Year-round 12:00 — 16:00

The Botanic Garden is fun all year round!

	Visit a snowy winter wonderland. The red barberry, hawthorn, rosehip, mountain ash and black cotoneaster berries give it a particular charm	WINTER
	In early spring the first snowdrops and crocuses bloom. Then, in succession — cornel, goose onion, corydalis, lungwort	SPRING
	In summer, irises, peonies, lilies and roses bloom; the leaves of maples and beech trees change colour several times	SUMMER
	In autumn, the trees are painted in a variety of colours, from the most delicate yellows to the darkest burgundies	AUTUMN

Garden History

The Botanical Garden is located on the grounds of the former Königsberg Gardens in one of the most beautiful areas of the city. It was founded by Paul Kaeber, professor of the University of Königsberg, as a training centre for students. His monument, erected in 1919, remains in the Garden to this day

1904

Königsberg Gardens

The Gardens provided the city’s schools with plants for botany classes. Visitors enjoyed dendrological, vegetable, industrial crop, medicinal and floral collections

1948

Kaliningrad Ecology Research Station

A research institute. The greenhouses were restored, the pond was cleaned, and the layout was renewed

1967

Botanic Garden

Transferred to Kaliningrad State University (now IKBFU). A scientific subdivision of the University