The University Museum gardens in 1930.
Still quite similar to what it looks like today, although reality has added colours the last 100 years. A small but most welcome upgrade.
The University Museum Gardens (Muséhagen) is a botanical garden on Nygårdshøyden in
#Bergen, connected to the natural history department of the University Museum. Established late 1800s according to a plan drawn up by Jørgen Brunchorst, it was conceived from the start as an outdoor extension of the natural history collections housed inside.
The site itself had an unusual preparation: in the 1890s, private citizens were permitted to dump surplus soil there to fill up the plot. From its earliest years, the garden accumulated specimens with remarkable stories. The first rhododendron planted there came from the personal garden of Jørgen Brunchorst's own mother, and two yew trees near the museum's north wing were brought by horse and cart in 1929 from a city-center garden.
Over 120 years of development, the garden has grown to contain around 3,000 different plant species, many collected as seeds from wild plants across Norway and the wider world. Muséhagen served as the University of Bergen's main botanical garden until 1996.
Photo via University of Bergen Library:
https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-bs-ok-10827-004.html
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