The website for Copenhagen’s Botanical Garden feels very instructing and educating for its design and purpose. It tells the reader of the reasons for its existence (rather than describing the magic of the place). Below are the listed reasons for the garden’s existence:
Maintaining and developing the scientific collections of living and preserved plants and fungi in line with good, international practice and international conventions.
Making the collections and the information they contain available for research, teaching and public information.
Managing the central library for botanical literature, Botanisk Centralbibliotek.
Carrying out research, mainly in relation to the collections
Participating in the university training within the research fields of the Botanical Garden.
Contributing to conservation of plants and fungi, both nationally and globally
Communicating the knowledge of plants/fungi and encouraging the interest in national and global nature values through exhibitions, activities and events.
Besides these creditable attributes, the garden is a place of sanctuary from a cold winter day in Denmark. Inside a lot of the glasshouses, the windows are steamed up, like all of the cafes on Copenhagen’s streets. So you can’t see in or out. You must enter to see what’s inside.
You instantly win if you do. The garden’s hues change from yellows to blues moving between glasshouses.
I hope to show the more utopian capabilites of the garden. A bit of escapism from the known at the moment.
