Greenhouses to Visit in Paris: from the Jardin des Plantes to Auteuil
By the Verrière editors · Published on October 15, 2026
Paris has two great sets of historic glasshouses, at the Jardin des Plantes and at Auteuil, plus several lesser-known greenhouses, some of which open only a few days a year. Here are all of them in the Verrière atlas, in Paris and just outside.
In Paris
The Grandes Serres of the Jardin des Plantes (1834–1836) and the Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil (1895–1898) are the two must-sees. The Great Greenhouse of the Parc zoologique is visited with the zoo. The Luxembourg greenhouses open only on European Heritage Days, and those of the École Du Breuil on Wednesday afternoons.
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Grandes Serres du Jardin des Plantes
🇫🇷 Paris, Île-de-France, France · 1834–1836
Rohault de Fleury's two cast-iron and glass pavilions, designed from 1834, mark the beginning of metal architecture in France.
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Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil
🇫🇷 Paris, France · 1895–1898
The City of Paris's greenhouse garden, where plants for municipal buildings were once produced.
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Grande Serre of the Parc zoologique de Paris (Vincennes Zoo)
🇫🇷 Paris 12th arrondissement, Île-de-France, France · 2014
A 4,000 m² tropical glasshouse built when the Vincennes zoo was entirely reconstructed and reopened in April 2014.
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Greenhouses of the Jardin du Luxembourg (Senate greenhouses)
🇫🇷 Paris 6th arrondissement, Île-de-France, France · 1796 (greenhouses on the site); 1999 (orchid, begonia and croton house)
An orchid collection founded in 1838 and grown by the French Senate in a house of seven 'chapels', each with its own climate.
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Greenhouses of the École Du Breuil (hot houses of the school garden)
🇫🇷 Paris 12th arrondissement (Bois de Vincennes), Île-de-France, France ·
The teaching greenhouses of the horticultural school founded by Haussmann in 1867 have opened to visitors one afternoon a week since 2023.
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Just outside Paris
In Boulogne-Billancourt, the palmarium of the Albert-Kahn Museum's French garden; in Versailles, the palace Orangery (1684–1686), ancestor of the modern greenhouse.
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Palmarium of the French Garden, Albert-Kahn Museum and Gardens
🇫🇷 Boulogne-Billancourt, Île-de-France, France · Greenhouse undated (French garden: 1895)
Albert Kahn's palmarium, listed as a historic monument in 2015, closes the French garden where the banker once staged concerts.
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Orangery of the Palace of Versailles
🇫🇷 Versailles, France · 1684–1686
Designed by Hardouin-Mansart to shelter more than a thousand of Louis XIV's orange trees in winter.
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1157 botanical and historic greenhouses, across 76 countries, organized by continent in the complete catalogue.
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