Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a stunning 52-acre urban botanic garden that connects people to the world of plants, fostering delight and curiosity while inspiring an appreciation and sense of stewardship of the environment.

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Urban Advantage participants receive vouchers for admission to our institutions. Follow instructions below to reserve tickets using your voucher.

We are excited for you to visit. Vouchers are valid for general admission.

Tickets are required; reserve in advance for fastest entry. Visit: https://www.bbg.org/learn/urban_advantage to reserve your tickets. Click “Get Tickets”, then “Not a Member, Buy Tickets” (no fee will be charged). Select date and choose “Affiliated Organization Tickets” on the Reserve Tickets menu. Go to “Checkout”. You will receive a confirmation email with QR code that you must show on arrival. You must bring your UA Teacher voucher (either paper or digital copy) to show to Visitor Services staff.

Children under 14 must be supervised by adults 18 or over.

Parking is not included. Voucher not valid for entry to Lightscape or other ticketed events.

Visitors can reserve free Community Tickets for any day of the week. See https://www.bbg.org/visit/hours under the heading ” Free Admission Opportunities”.

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We are excited for you to visit.

Class Trip Vouchers can be used for a 90-minute instructor-led workshop that includes hands-on plant explorations, a tour of plant collections, and potting up a plant for each student in the education greenhouse or a 45-minute instructor-led walking tour of the plant collections and a take-back-to-school planting kit with a plant for each student. See options and register at https://www.bbg.org/learn/urban_advantage.

Teachers can also use their Class Trip Vouchers for Backpack Trips which are self-led structured tours where we provide curated itineraries along with a backpack that includes journals, pencils, hand lenses, and supplies to pot up a plant for each student back at school. See options and register at https://www.bbg.org/learn/urban_advantage.

Teachers can also bring their classes self-guided without the use of a voucher. Register for a self guided trip: https://www.bbg.org/learn/urban_advantage.

Teachers may request a pre-trip Teacher Support Visit with BBG UA staff on the UA Portal.

Parking is not included.

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Upcoming Events

During the school year, when vouchers are valid, the events listed on this page are free.
During the summer, these events may required additional payment.

During the school year, when vouchers are valid, the events listed on this page are free. During the summer, these events may required additional payment.

Sep 01, 2026 - Oct 31, 2026
Sun, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
1pm - 2:00pm
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Discover BBG’s early-fall foliage, fruits, and flowers on this free walk led by trained Garden Guides. Meet on Magnolia Plaza.
Sep 19, 2026 - Oct 31, 2026
Sun, Sat
10:30am - 12:30pm
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Learn and play together in the Discovery Garden. Hands-on stations throughout the garden’s courtyard, meadow, woodland, and marsh encourage families to explore nature alongside our volunteer educators and teenage Garden apprentices. This is a drop-in program for families with children of all ages.
Sep 12, 2026
Sat
11am - 2:30pm
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As part of the North American Japanese Garden Association’s annual Gardens for Peace project, which brings communities together in Japanese gardens to promote peace, BBG presents free public programming in and around the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden.
May 23, 2026 - Oct 25, 2026
Sun, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
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Ancestral Ecologies comprises four multisensory installations that consider how African diasporic and Latinx worldviews can inform contemporary ecological knowledge and stewardship.
May 23, 2026 - Oct 25, 2026
Sun, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
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For 30 years, the Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest has demonstrated how small collective actions can build communities and transform neighborhoods, block by block.

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