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All Botanical and Historic Greenhouses: the Catalogue

1157 greenhouses catalogued across 76 countries, organized by continent. Each entry is its own dedicated page.

Europe (630)

"Zielony Raj" Orangery, Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden (Powsin), Warsaw (Powsin), Masovia
2001–2003

"Zielony Raj" Orangery, Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden (Powsin)

🇵🇱 Warsaw (Powsin), Masovia
Named "Zielony Raj" (Green Paradise) by public vote, it holds Poland's largest citrus collection.
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2003

'Pflanzenwelt unter Glas', Augsburg Botanical Garden

🇩🇪 Augsburg, Bavaria
A glass cube of 2003 that wraps around the steel frame of the garden's octagonal Victoria regia house, built in 1937.
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Aberglasney Ninfarium, Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
2005

Aberglasney Ninfarium

🇬🇧 Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A subtropical garden planted in the ruined rooms of a Welsh mansion, under a glass atrium completed in 2005.
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Afrykarium, Wrocław Zoo (Afrykarium-Oceanarium), Wrocław, Lower Silesia
2012–2014

Afrykarium, Wrocław Zoo (Afrykarium-Oceanarium)

🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesia
Beneath a UV-permeable ETFE roof, a Congo jungle where manatees and free-flying birds share dense tropical vegetation.
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Aimé Bonpland Exhibition Greenhouse (Municipal Horticultural Centre)

🇫🇷 La Rochelle (Mireuil), Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A 1,400 m² glasshouse in a municipal horticultural centre, staged as a world tour of plants, with a section devoted to Aimé Bonpland.
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Alexandra Park Conservatory, Oldham, Greater Manchester
1907

Alexandra Park Conservatory

🇬🇧 Oldham, Greater Manchester
Supplied by Messenger in 1907, this timber-and-glass conservatory reopened in 2023 after a £460,000 restoration.
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1934

Alexandra Park Greenhouse

🇬🇧 Alexandra Park, Hastings (East Sussex)
A teak-and-cast-iron greenhouse bought by Hastings in 1934, left derelict from the 1980s and restored by volunteers.
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Alfred-Brehm-Haus (Tierpark Berlin), Berlin (Friedrichsfelde)
1956–1963

Alfred-Brehm-Haus (Tierpark Berlin)

🇩🇪 Berlin (Friedrichsfelde)
Opened in 1963 as the world's largest big cat house, it is built around a tropical hall rising to 16 metres.
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North America (196)

African Rainforest Pavilion (Toronto Zoo), Toronto (Scarborough), Ontario
1974

African Rainforest Pavilion (Toronto Zoo)

🇨🇦 Toronto (Scarborough), Ontario
Its steel-and-glass roofs, designed by Ron Thom in 1974, have sheltered the world's largest indoor habitat for lowland gorillas since 2001.
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Alice Hand Callaway Visitor Center and Conservatory (State Botanical Garden of Georgia), Athens, Georgia
1985

Alice Hand Callaway Visitor Center and Conservatory (State Botanical Garden of Georgia)

🇺🇸 Athens, Georgia
Beneath high glass ceilings, the University of Georgia's botanical garden displays tropical plants of economic interest.
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Allan Gardens Conservatory (Palm House), Toronto, Ontario
1910

Allan Gardens Conservatory (Palm House)

🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario
Rebuilt as a glass dome after fire reduced the original pavilion to ashes in 1902.
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2008

Amazonia, Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden

🇺🇸 Evansville, Indiana
A South American rainforest of 20,000 square feet under a translucent roof, with jaguar, tapir, howler monkeys and February orchids.
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Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, Detroit, Michigan
1904

Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory

🇺🇸 Detroit, Michigan
The dome, originally timber-framed, was rebuilt in steel and aluminium in 1949 and reglazed in a renovation completed in 2024.
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Appalachian Cove Forest (Tennessee Aquarium), Chattanooga, Tennessee
1992

Appalachian Cove Forest (Tennessee Aquarium)

🇺🇸 Chattanooga, Tennessee
A southern Appalachian forest growing beneath the glass pyramids of the River Journey building in Chattanooga.
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2004

Appalachian Cove and Cypress Swamp glass-covered habitats, Virginia Living Museum

🇺🇸 Newport News, Virginia
Two two-story glass-covered habitats, a Blue Ridge cove with a waterfall and a cypress swamp, walked through from stream bottom to treetop.
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Atrium Garden, Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, Turtle Bay, Manhattan, New York
1967

Atrium Garden, Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice

🇺🇸 Turtle Bay, Manhattan, New York
The first large interior atrium garden in the United States: a terraced garden by Dan Kiley beneath a sawtooth glass ceiling, since 1967.
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South America (17)

2026

Cali Botanical Garden Orchid Pavilion

🇨🇴 Cali
A new pavilion for orchids native to the tropical dry forest of the Cauca valley, a habitat under threat from deforestation.
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Crystal Palace of Petrópolis, Petrópolis
1884

Crystal Palace of Petrópolis

🇧🇷 Petrópolis
An iron-and-glass pavilion made in France, a gift from the Count of Eu to Princess Isabel so she could grow her plants.
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Dr. Frederico Carlos Hoehne Greenhouses (São Paulo Botanical Garden), São Paulo, State of São Paulo
1928–1929

Dr. Frederico Carlos Hoehne Greenhouses (São Paulo Botanical Garden)

🇧🇷 São Paulo, State of São Paulo
Twin greenhouses with an iron frame from England, at the very origin of the São Paulo Botanical Garden, one devoted to the Atlantic Forest.
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Estufa das Bromélias Roberto Burle Marx (Bromeliad House, Rio Botanical Garden)

🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro
Some 1,700 bromeliads from South and Central America, in a greenhouse named after the landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx.
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Estufa do Jardim Botânico de Curitiba, Curitiba, Paraná
1991

Estufa do Jardim Botânico de Curitiba

🇧🇷 Curitiba, Paraná
Three iron-and-glass domes inspired by the Crystal Palace, now the defining image of Curitiba.
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Invernáculo of the Carlos Thays Botanical Garden, Buenos Aires
1889 · 1897

Invernáculo of the Carlos Thays Botanical Garden

🇦🇷 Buenos Aires
Award-winning at the Paris World's Fair before crossing the Atlantic.
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Invernáculo of the Montevideo Botanical Garden, Montevideo, Prado district
1920 · 2023

Invernáculo of the Montevideo Botanical Garden

🇺🇾 Montevideo, Prado district
A metal frame shipped from France, first erected in the Prado and moved to the Botanical Garden in the 1920s.
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1939

Invernáculo, Santa Teresa National Park

🇺🇾 Santa Teresa National Park, Rocha Department
A granite-and-glass greenhouse dated 1939, heated and humidity-controlled, set in a park on Uruguay's Atlantic coast.
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Africa (8)

Botanical Society Conservatory (Kirstenbosch), Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town
1997

Botanical Society Conservatory (Kirstenbosch)

🇿🇦 Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town
Around a baobab, each bed of this 1997 conservatory recreates a southern African region using that region's own rocks.
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1868–1871

Historic Greenhouses of the Zohria Garden (Hadiqat al-Zohriya)

🇪🇬 Zamalek, Cairo
Created in 1868 by Khedive Ismail, this acclimatisation garden keeps old iron-and-glass greenhouses in the heart of Zamalek.
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Jardin d'Essai du Hamma, Algiers
1832

Jardin d'Essai du Hamma

🇩🇿 Algiers
Served as a filming location for 'Tarzan the Ape Man' in 1932.
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Pearson Conservatory (St George's Park), Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape
1882

Pearson Conservatory (St George's Park)

🇿🇦 Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape
A Scottish-made Victorian conservatory shipped in kit form to the Eastern Cape, its cast iron original but its timber replaced in the 2009-2011 rebuild.
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Royal Greenhouse (al-Sawba al-Malakiyya), Antoniadis Gardens

🇪🇬 Antoniadis Gardens, Alexandria
A large wrought-iron and glass greenhouse, restored in Alexandria's Antoniadis Gardens, where tropical and rare plants can be seen.
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1934

Royal Greenhouse (al-Sawba al-Malakiyya), Montaza Palace Gardens

🇪🇬 Montaza Palace Gardens, Alexandria
Built by King Fuad I in 1934, a glass-roofed greenhouse holding tropical and shade plants at the far end of the Montaza park.
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1922 · 1920

Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden Glasshouses

🇿🇦 Stellenbosch, Western Cape
A Welwitschia sown in 1926 by the first curator still grows in its original spot, in an arid house that has since been rebuilt twice.
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2025

Tropical Display House

🇿🇦 Durban
Opened in October 2025, this tropical house took over from the historic Ernest Thorp Orchid House, closed after the 2022 floods.
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Asia (273)

2025

'Chunyan' Glass Rainforest Greenhouse, Guanshanhu Ecological Civilization Exhibition Hall

🇨🇳 Guiyang, Guizhou
A glass greenhouse the size of a small room, kept at 25 °C, holding 60 plant categories including 12 protected wild species.
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2018

Agriculture Dream Factory glass greenhouses, Guilinyang National Tropical Agriculture Park (桂林洋国家热带农业公园 农业梦工厂)

🇨🇳 Haikou (Meilan District), Hainan
About 106,000 m² of intelligent glass greenhouses, billed by local press as the largest in the country built in one go.
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2011

Alpine Glass House (고산온실), Jade Garden

🇰🇷 Chuncheon, Gangwon (Namsan-myeon)
A glass house devoted to plants of the Alps, the Himalayas and Mount Baekdu, planted mostly with species that need no winter heating.
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Ansan Botanical Garden Glasshouses (안산식물원), Ansan (Sangnok-gu), Gyeonggi
1999–2002

Ansan Botanical Garden Glasshouses (안산식물원)

🇰🇷 Ansan (Sangnok-gu), Gyeonggi
Three glass halls set tropical palms and cacti alongside plants from central and southern Korea.
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Astana Botanical Garden Orangeries (Botanikalyq Baq), Astana

Astana Botanical Garden Orangeries (Botanikalyq Baq)

🇰🇿 Astana
Two pyramid-shaped glasshouses kept at 24 to 26 °C all year round in the heart of Kazakhstan's capital.
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Atagawa Tropical & Alligator Garden (熱川バナナワニ園), Higashi-Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture
1958

Atagawa Tropical & Alligator Garden (熱川バナナワニ園)

🇯🇵 Higashi-Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture
Since 1958, steam from Atagawa's near-boiling hot springs has heated greenhouses growing more than twenty kinds of banana.
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Awaji Green Kan (あわじグリーン館), Awaji Yumebutai Greenhouse, Awaji, Hyōgo Prefecture
2000

Awaji Green Kan (あわじグリーン館), Awaji Yumebutai Greenhouse

🇯🇵 Awaji, Hyōgo Prefecture
Designed by Tadao Ando on a hill whose earth was used to build Kansai airport, it is Japan's second-largest greenhouse.
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BOTANICA MUSEUM Greenhouse, former Chiba City Flower Museum (千葉市花の美術館), Mihama-ku, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture
1995 · 2025

BOTANICA MUSEUM Greenhouse, former Chiba City Flower Museum (千葉市花の美術館)

🇯🇵 Mihama-ku, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture
Built around a waterfall for the 1995 urban greening fair, the cylindrical glass greenhouse kept its original layout in the 2025 artistic makeover.
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Oceania (33)

1988

Alf Headland Conservatory, Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens

🇦🇺 Daylesford, Victoria
It honours the caretaker who, from 1956, revived the gardens' begonias from two tubers found in the wood shed.
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Amazon Waterlily Pavilion, Adelaide Botanic Garden, Adelaide, South Australia
2007

Amazon Waterlily Pavilion

🇦🇺 Adelaide Botanic Garden, Adelaide, South Australia
Load-bearing columns and beams of laminated glass: a 2007 pavilion built around the heritage pond of the 1867 Victoria House.
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Auckland Domain Wintergardens, Auckland Domain, Auckland
1921–1928

Auckland Domain Wintergardens

🇳🇿 Auckland Domain, Auckland
Paid for with profits from the 1913-14 exhibition, they are rated by Heritage New Zealand the finest glasshouses of their kind in the country.
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1980

Bason Botanic Gardens Conservatories

🇳🇿 Whanganui, Manawatū-Whanganui
Glasshouses written into a deed of gift: Stanley Bason made their construction the condition of handing his farm to the city in 1966.
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Begonia House, Machattie Park, Machattie Park, Bathurst, New South Wales
1936

Begonia House, Machattie Park

🇦🇺 Machattie Park, Bathurst, New South Wales
Every year from February to April, some 300 tuberous begonias rise in tiers along the L-shaped stands of this 1936 glasshouse.
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Bicentennial Conservatory, Adelaide Botanic Garden
1989

Bicentennial Conservatory

🇦🇺 Adelaide Botanic Garden
The largest single-span glasshouse in the entire Southern Hemisphere.
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Blowes Conservatory (Cook Park), Orange, New South Wales
1934

Blowes Conservatory (Cook Park)

🇦🇺 Orange, New South Wales
Donated in 1934 by Mayor Alfred William Blowes, it grows tuberous begonias, the first of them a gift from the City of Ballarat.
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1985

Butterfly House

🇦🇺 Melbourne Zoo, Parkville
At Melbourne Zoo, a free-flight butterfly house opened on December 11, 1985.
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