Currently the Brera Botanical Garden is a university museum with the aim of safeguarding a historical asset as a testimony to the cultural model in force in the second half of the 18th century. This model foresaw the transformation of Palazzo Brera and therefore of the institutions present in it, into a place of elaboration and synthesis of different knowledge. For this reason, since the beginning of the 1980s, the University of Milan has promoted projects and initiatives to safeguard the historical-scientific and historical-naturalistic heritage of Palazzo Brera. Therefore, not only preservation of the historical heritage but dissemination of scientific culture: this is why the Brera Botanical Garden welcomes school groups and groups of adults every day. For some years now, the Network of Botanical Gardens of Lombardy has been experimenting with the coordination and diffusion of didactic-educational programmes among 7 Lombard gardens: to this end, in addition to the Brera Garden, the gardens of Bergamo, Bormio, Milan-Città Studi, Pavia, Villa Carlotta and Toscolano Maderno are also brought together in association.
