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  • Library Collections

    Library Collections

    The RBGE Library holds over 1 million items – books, journals, original artworks, maps and much more. As one of Scotland's National Collections, all of these items are available for use by anyone that needs to access them.

  • Collections

    Collections

  • Our Collections

    Our Collections

    The Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh cares for around three million specimens of plants, fungi, lichens, diatoms and more from around the world, capturing more than 300 years of botanical history. The mounted herbarium is…

  • Rules for the Consultation of Archives and Special Collections

    Rules - Archives and Special Collections

    The items in these collections are extremely rare and potentially irreplaceable and users are therefore asked to use more than ordinary care when handling them. The Head of the Library reserves the right to refuse requests for access to items in…

  • Photographic Collections

    Photographic Collections

  • DNA from the Collections

    DNA from the collections

    Extraction from a wide phylogentic range of material, as well as from different tissue types (including leaf, flower, bark) and methods of preservation (fresh, silica, herbarium etc.). Assessment of DNA quantity and quality.

  • Historical Collections

    Historical Collections

  • Collections unite across the UK

    Collections unite across the UK

    The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is proud to be taking part in the 'Towards a National Collection' project, to unearth connections between cultural and heritage collections across the UK.    Towards a National Collection We write as the united…

  • Plants on Paper: curatorial practice and the decolonization of collections of scientific prints and drawings

    Plants on Paper

    ABOUT THE PROJECT:  The project is funded by Getty as part of the Paper Project initiative and has the following goals:  Raise awareness of RBGE’s extraordinary art collection - Identify and share relevant key works as case studies to…

  • Integrated Herbaria & Major Collections

    Integrated Herbaria

    The Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has a rich history. Originally founded from the Herbarium of the University of Edinburgh and the Botanical Society of Scotland, there then followed the incorporation of many large, historically…

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