New York Botanical Garden in Bronx, NY

The New York Botanical Garden is an iconic living museum, a major educational institution, and a renowned plant research and conservation organization. Founded in 1891 and now a National Historic Landmark, it is one of the greatest botanical gardens in the world and the largest in any city in the United States, distinguished by the beauty of its diverse landscape and extensive collections and gardens, as well as by the scope and excellence of its programs.

Connecting Gardening to the Arts & Humanities:
The Garden’s multidisciplinary exhibitions and educational programs reveal the deep connections between plants and people, nature, and culture. These initiatives illuminate the importance of gardens to human health and to the lives and work of influential artists and thinkers while also advancing scholarship in the sciences, arts, and humanities.

Saving the Plants of the World:
NYBG pursues science-based plant conservation, providing fundamental research to support policy decisions made by governments on local, national, and international scales. Its efforts have helped to protect some of the most threatened floras in the world, from Brazil to Myanmar, and have advanced forest management practices and capacity building in countries with the most biologically diverse and endangered habitats. NYBG’s scientists are currently engaged in 250 international collaborations with 168 institutions in 49 countries. This vast work is supported by the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, C.V. Starr Virtual Herbarium, LuEsther T. Mertz Library, Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Program for Molecular Systematics, and Commodore Matthew Perry Graduate Studies Program.

Teaching Science to Kids:
The New York Botanical Garden is a leader and national model for plant-based education, committed to developing innovative programs and unique learning facilities designed to improve scientific literacy among schoolchildren, teachers, and families. Key components of the curricula introduce plant biology and ecology, conservation, and organic gardening to increase their awareness, knowledge, and understanding of the natural world. Hands-on, inquiry-based programs, which serve more than 300,000 people annually, utilize the Garden’s grounds as living classrooms, encouraging engagement in protecting the environment as well as the excitement of scientific thinking and investigation.