Botanical garden of the University of Warsaw is the oldest Botanical garden in the capital of Poland, is situated in the centre of Warsaw.

The Botanical garden was founded in 1811 for the purposes of the Warsaw medical school. Plants were brought from abroad gardener Carl Lindner. In January 1814 Professor Hoffmann presented a plan of the garden and pointed to the need of Seating of plants by a special system of Linnaeus. He also stressed that the garden should be a school of horticulture, with the training of gardeners, and the rules for ordinary visitors strongly suggested to toughen up.

In December 1818 the garden was transferred to the custody of the University of Warsaw, with the consent of the Russian Emperor Alexander I. Since then started flourishing garden. The territory was divided into 3 zones: the research part, intended for training of students and scientific research, pomology part for preparing future gardeners and the public part is for the General public. Plants began to privatisa from all over the world, and by 1824, the collection consisted of more than 10,000 species.

In 1944 during the Warsaw uprising the garden was completely destroyed. Since 1945 began the painstaking restoration work: built new pavilions, greenhouses, planted thousands of plants, restored monuments of Professor Michael Schubert and James Scales.

In 1960, the management of the garden took on Lyudmila Karpovich whose efforts 1 July 1965 Botanical garden was entered in the register of cultural monuments of the city of Warsaw. Since 1966, the garden became a member of the International Association of Botanic gardens.

Currently one of the priority areas of the garden is the conservation of biodiversity of wild plants, as well as educational activities.