Introduction
Think of the works of art of Rembrandt, Vermeer, Frans Hals…
We would all agree that they hold very significant cultural importance, but they are also important for science and society. This is also true for the site you are now visiting: the site of the Stichting Nationale Plantencollectie [SNP] - the Dutch Botanical Gardens Collection Foundation [DBGC], care-taker of the Dutch National Plants Collection [NPC].
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Protocols &procedures
The Dutch National Plants Collection is a living museum with works of art that can absolutely compete with those of Rembrandt, Vermeer and Frans Hals. You must see it: living plants with a scientific, cultural, historic and/or social importance.
You can encounter this national treasure in one of the many botanical gardens accommodating a DNP collection. Beautiful gardens with a special experience in each and every season provides an added bonus. But they can also be found in zoos, palaces, or on estates .......For more information, see localities on this site.
Many of them are educational gardens for, amongst others [future] scientists, such as the garden of Clusius in Leiden or other botanical gardens with a close connection with a university (Amsterdam, Delft, Nijmegen, Wageningen, Utrecht).
Each and every one is, in itself, a little treasure, in which the National Plants Collections form only a small part.
This site opens the door to all those gardens and hence to these collections, providing a taste of - amongst others - the 'living Rembrandt's, Earth's incredible biodiversity, and the gigantic storage places of genetic plant materials. You will find that this site leads you to new adventures for each and every season.
The DBGPC was initiated in 1988, starting as an unique collaboration of [botanical] gardens. Collaboration on this scale is unprecedented elsewhere in the world! It started its existence as the Dutch Botanical Gardens Foundation, changing the name in 1998 towards Dutch Botanical Gardens Collections Foundation.
This website was made possible bij the "Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds".
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