History
Plus de 250 ans d'Histoire marquent le développement des Jardins botaniques du Grand Nancy et de l'Université de Lorraine.
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Le premier jardin botanique de Nancy a été créé en 1758. Il était situé rue Sainte-Catherine.
In 1976, the City of Nancy and Université de Lorraine (formerly Université de Nancy I) joined forces to manage this historic garden, as well as the Haut Chitelet High Altitude Garden, created in the Vosges in 1966, and the new Montet site, located in Villers-lès-Nancy.
The historic garden was handed back to the local council in 1993 and renamed the Dominique-Alexandre Godron Garden.
In 1996 the “Conservatoire et Jardins botaniques de Nancy” included the Montet Botanical Garden and the High Altitude Haut Chitelet Garden. They are co-managed by the Communauté Urbaine du Grand Nancy, now known as Métropole du Grand Nancy, and Université de Lorraine.
With the Nancy Museum-Aquarium and the Museum of the History of Iron (Musée de l’Histoire du fer), the botanical gardens are thus part of three scientific and technical cultural institutions co-managed by these two organisations.
On 1 April 2016 the “Conservatoire et Jardins botaniques de Nancy” took the name Jardins botaniques du Grand Nancy and Université de Lorraine. The Montet Botanical Garden was renamed the Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden (Jardin botanique Jean-Marie Pelt).