TY - JOUR
TI - Museum of the Botanic Garden, Jagiellonian University in Cracow – past and present
AU - Zemanek, Alicja
TI - Museum of the Botanic Garden, Jagiellonian University in Cracow – past and present
AB - 
	The Museum of the Botanic Garden, the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (the oldest Polish botanical garden founded in 1783) holds materials illustrating scientific and didactic activity of the Cracow botanical centre. In 1983, exhibition was arranged in the Garden, on the first floor of the Śniadecki Collegium. The botanical collection includes dendrological and carpological (fruits and seeds) specimens, as well as plant organs stored in liquid, gathered in the Botanic Garden or during field research of botanists in Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and the polar regions, mostly in the 19–21th centuries. Among the largest, there is the collection of Marian Raciborski (1863–1917) (Java, Indonesia, 1896–1900). Additionally, the Museum holds various materials about the history of botany. The subject of the exhibition is the history of the Cracow Botanic Garden and various tropical specimens from Africa, and Asia, as well as plants and lichens from the polar regions. Temporary exhibitions are mostly devoted to the plant motives in art. The research program focuses on the history of botany, ethnobotany, as well as the question of the relations between nature, science, and culture. Throughout the year the Museum is open to students, while normal visitors may access the Museum in time the Botanic Garden is open i.e. from April to October.
VL - Volume 25 (2018)
IS - Volume 25
PY - 2018
SN - 0239-9989
C1 - 2084-3852
SP - 147
EP - 175
DO - 10.4467/20843852.OM.17.014.9611
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/opuscula-musealia/article/muzeum-ogrodu-botanicznego-uniwersytetu-jagiellonskiego-w-krakowie-przeszlosc-i-terazniejszosc
KW - Africa
KW - Botanic Garden
KW - botanical museum
KW - carpological specimens
KW - Cracow
KW - dendrological specimens
KW - Dyakowska
KW - ethnobotany
KW - history of botany
KW - Jagiellonian University
KW - Java
KW - ‘Kilimanjaro 75’
KW - Kornaś
KW - Medwecka-Kornaś
KW - nature – science – culture relations
KW - Olech
KW - Raciborski
KW - Rostafiński
KW - Szafer
KW - Śniadecki
KW - Warszewicz