Well-being and poisons from plants. An exhibition on the occasion of MUSEOCITY 2025
From Sunday 2nd to Friday 7th March 2025
Brera Botanical Garden
Via Brera 28-Via privata F.lli Gabba 10, Milano
On the occasion of MUSEOCITY 2025, event promoted by the Municipality of Milan, the exhibition “Well-being and poisons from plants” is offered again to our visitors. It is dedicated to poisonous plants and it was prepared to open the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of Brera Botanical Garden, last December.
From monkshood to common foxglove, from bittersweet nightshade to Christmas rose, from water hemlock to thornapple: a selection of historical botanical wallcharts by Peter Esser (1910) leads to discover the pharmacological function of some plants, and the dangers that an improper use of plants can entail.
The wallcharts, which are part of the heritage of the historic Herbarium of the University of Milan, are true artworks and depict with meticulous aesthetic and scientific care a selection of poisonous plants, which often also have useful properties for our health. In the exhibition they are reproduced in 1:1 scale.
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The exhibition can be visited free of charge from Sunday 2nd to Friday 7th March 2025, in the outdoor space close to Sala Vitman, during opening hours of the Botanical Garden.
2nd March is also an extraordinary opening of the Garden, 9:30am-16:30pm, both for the garden visit, and the exhibition.
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