Part of Oxford Botanic Garden’s 400th anniversary celebrations

To finish our 400th anniversary celebrations in style, we’re running six back-to-back themed days crammed with activities for all the family. These additional offerings are included in our standard entry ticket.

Each day will run from 10am–6pm (last entry 5pm) and will include performances, tours, trails, crafts, food and music for all ages. Make sure to check out our Venus flytrap themed waste station!

Monday 25th July – A history themed day

Explore the Garden with re-enactors, dye-matching, a molecular scavenger hunt and much more!

Tuesday 26th July – A literature themed day

Join Alice in Wonderland characters and try your hand at using the Bodleian mobile printing press to make your own botanical bookmark.

Wednesday 27th July – A science themed day

Bug hunts, science shows, chemistry demonstrations, and more.

Thursday 28th July – An art themed day

Try your hand at some botanical illustration, garden design, or make some vegetable art.

Friday 29th July – A health, wellbeing and food themed day

The Plant-based Street Food Fair starts today, with five community groups bringing delicious plant based cuisine to the Garden and exciting cultural activities. In addition to a plethora of crafting activities and tours, we’ll have a fantastic range of local artists performing music between 3pm–6pm.

Saturday 30th July – A birthday party for the Garden

Enjoy lots of our favourite activities, food and music to round off our anniversary celebrations with a bang! The Plant-based Street Food Fair will be running again and we will finish with more local artists performing between 3pm-6pm.

Bookings are non-refundable and non-transferrable; we cannot amend these over the phone, so please take care when selecting the day and time.

E-tickets purchased online must be brought to the event, either on mobile phone or in printed format, or entry cannot be guaranteed.

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