Bookshop

Located inside the entrance building to the Botanical Gardens — a neoclassical gem designed in 1839 by architect Carlo Giachery — our Bookshop is not just a retail outlet, but a multifunctional space dedicated to hospitality and culture. Managed by CoopCulture, the space integrates a ticket office, front office and a selection of excellent publications and handicrafts.

What you can find at the Bookshop
The catalogue is constantly updated and offers a careful selection of botanical and scientific items:

• Specialised publications: guides to the Garden, audio guides, exhibition catalogues, books and scientific publications.
• Design & gadgets: accessories, design objects and gift items for adults and children.
• Experiences: here you can purchase guided tours, educational workshops and activities for children of different age groups.

Useful information: The Bookshop follows the opening hours of the Botanical Garden.

The entrance to the Botanical Gardens has been transformed into a total work of art thanks to an immersive art installation by the American collective Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young), inaugurated in 2019. A tribute to the flora of the Botanical Gardens and the fauna of the P. Doderlein Zoology Museum, it winds its way through three colourful rooms:

Midday Room: a sunny environment, illuminated by the light yellow walls, houses the bookshop.

Midnight Room: an intimate space with dark tones that highlights the dazzling white of the statue of Paris, a plaster reproduction of the work by Nunzio Morello (1838), which you can see in the pool in front of the Winter Garden (Serra Carolina).

Iridescence Room: an explosion of colours showcasing rare botanical specimens from the Herbarium.

A work that invites you to linger, observe, notice, recognise and admire the subjects on the walls: flowers, fruits, seeds, plants and shoots from the Botanical Garden, birds, birds of prey and butterflies that are part of the collections of the nearby P. Doderlein Zoology Museum, thus ideally bringing together the University's two museum structures in the embrace of nature.