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Family Attractions

Quick Facts
Year Round Children's Garden:

Year-round children’s garden with more than 12 play spaces, including fairy and troll knoll, growers garden, butterfly garden, sensory garden, secret spaces, and more.
A Family-Friendly Conservatory:

Kid and family-friendly conservatory offers amazing plants from around the world, a welcome retreat from the cold weather, and something big, bold, or beautiful blooming throughout the year. Plus outdoor trails and gardens invite discovery, play and learning in every season.
Interactive Classes Taught Year Round:

Interactive nature-themed kids’ ed workshops and classes year-round teach kids about cooking, crafts, gardening, wildlife, and more.

U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

In the Gaffield Children’s Garden at Matthaei, kids can create secret spaces, make music, look for hidden treasures in the digging pit, learn about how plants grow or hitch a ride on a giant turtle.

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  • Botanical Gardens

Essential Information

Street Address 1800 N. Dixboro Road
Ann Arbor, MI
Phone734-647-7600
Website URL mbgna.umich.edu

Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum features hundreds of acres of trails, natural areas, displays, and formal gardens, free and open seven days a week from dawn to dusk. It also features a free year-round children’s garden, a three-climate conservatory with tropical, temperate, and arid houses, in addition to kids and adult ed programs, drop-in activities, school tours, volunteer opportunities, special sales and events, a gift shop and more. All in beautiful, restorative, family-friendly natural settings that offer a chance for respite and relaxation.

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County: Washtenaw

In the Gaffield Children’s Garden at Matthaei, kids can create secret spaces, make music, look for hidden treasures in the digging pit, learn about how plants grow or hitch a ride on a giant turtle.

In the Gaffield Children’s Garden at Matthaei, kids can create secret spaces, make music, look for hidden treasures in the digging pit, learn about how plants grow or hitch a ride on a giant turtle.

Our interactive exhibits throughout the year offer kids the opportunity to discover, learn, and play. Children can learn about cooking, plant seedlings, create holiday crafts and more.

Our interactive exhibits throughout the year offer kids the opportunity to discover, learn, and play. Children can learn about cooking, plant seedlings, create holiday crafts and more.

At Matthaei, we love winter as much as summer. During our Wild Wonderful Winter conservatory display last year, kids participated in activities such as making snowflakes from paper, winter hikes and a celebration of the solstice.

At Matthaei, we love winter as much as summer. During our Wild Wonderful Winter conservatory display last year, kids participated in activities such as making snowflakes from paper, winter hikes and a celebration of the solstice.