Plant Walks — an ethnobotanical walk for adults | THE WORLD LIKE A HERBARIUM

TypeVisual Arts

Venue: Exhibition Hall

Hour

d. 12

Datum 10.10.2026

Price

30 PLN normal, 25 PLN reduced + ticket to be collected at CK ZAMEK Box Office

SPACER

ETHNOBOTANICAL

hosted by: Anna Gruszka

The walk, whose starting point is the works in the exhibition, will allow you to get to know the plants

from the immediate environment. During the walk we will hear about the origin of those close to us

plants, the history of the introduction of alien species into Europe and the resulting

with its natural and social consequences. We will look at the characteristics

morphological characteristics of plants allowing their correct identification and we will know

methods of identification of plants using a key and an application. encounter

will be an opportunity to tell stories about the colonization of botany and reflect on how

do we see plants — as Other or as a threat? Can we

decolonize our thinking about the plant world? The practical part will

a zine workshop, during which participants will perform their own

mini-booklets, based on newspaper clippings and old herbarium and collected

while walking the plants.

Age: 16+

duration of the meeting: 2-3 h

about the exhibition

Artwork promoting an ethnobotanical walk as part of the exhibition “The world as a herbarium. Nature in art from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. On an olive background there is a botanical illustration showing yellow flowers, green leaves and the subsequent stages of development of a butterfly: a caterpillar, a pupa and two butterflies. In the upper left corner is the title of the exhibition, and in the lower left the inscription “ethnobotanical walk”. The composition refers to ancient herbaria and natural illustrations.