31 October 2025 until 20 December 2025
Exhibition Paint Plants in the Old University Library
Working members of the Association of Botanical Artists portrayed all kinds of plants that were used in the Netherlands as dye plants, mainly for colouring textiles. Well-known dye plants such as madder and woad, but also lesser-known ones such as cheese herb, larkspur and dandelion.
Location: diagonally opposite the Hortus, Rapenburg 70. Open during office hours: Monday-Friday from 17:30-18:00. Free entrance, only on weekdays (closed on weekends). Image: Els van der Giessen – Tagetes erecta
When
- Daily starting from october 31st, 2025 until december 20th, 2025 from 00:00 to 00:00