This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please register to secure your place by emailing umma-program-registration@umich.edu.

Join David Michener, exhibition curator and Associate Curator at Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum, for a stroll through the visual history of the University of Michigan’s long-lost medicinal garden. Learn about its lasting impact on other academic units and its upcoming incarnation in a contemporary design. Narratives drawn from rarely seen archival specimens from the University Herbarium will highlight the profound relationship between plants and human health. Discover how renewed faculty interests at the intersection of health sciences, landscape architecture, contextual instruction and public engagement are leading to the 2015 opening of the new Medicinal Garden at the University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens.

This exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series, co-organized by and presented at UMMA and designed to showcase the renowned and diverse collections at the University of Michigan. The U-M Collections Collaborations series is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.