Arnold Arboretum
Daily, sunrise to sunset
125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
Information: 617-524-1718
www.arboretum.harvard.edu

The Arnold Arboretum was founded in 1872 as a research institute and living museum dedicated to the study and appreciation of woody plants. Across its 265 acres grows a collection of over 14,000 trees, shrubs, and vines gathered over the past century from the forests of Asia, Europe, and North America. The Arboretum landscape, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Charles Sprague Sargent, is a National Historic Landmark and part of Boston's Emerald Necklace park system.

Research programs at the Arboretum are based on its rich collections of living woody plants and herbarium specimens and extensive library holdings. The living collections, located in Jamaica Plain, present a synopsis of the woody flora of the North Temperate Zone, while the Arboretum's dried specimen collection in the Harvard University Herbaria has special strength in tropical Asian species. Together these collections support studies of plant systematics and evolution, tropical plant ecology and conservation. Through fellowships and direct support the Arboretum encourages undergraduates, graduate students, and visiting scientists to use its collections and participate in its research programs. The Arboretum offers a summer intern program in practical horticulture as well as field studies in ecology and plant science for elementary school classrooms. The Arboretum's Landscape Institute, located in Cambridge, conducts professional training in landscape design, historic landscape preservation, and garden history.

Accessible by public transportation via the MBTA Forest Hills station, the Arboretum offers visitors an extensive schedule of tours and classes providing instruction in botany, horticulture, and landscape history. A permanent exhibit, "Science in the Pleasure Ground," expplores the cultural history of the Arboretum landscape. The Arboretum is fully accessible via its paved road and pathway system and is open to the public, free of charge, every day from sunrise to sunset.

   The Hunnewell Visitor Center is wheelchair accessible.