The Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian University was founded in 1783 and is the oldest botanical garden in Poland and one of the oldest in Europe. Initially, it had an area of ​​approximately 2.4 hectares, and originated within the the partial remains of the old Czartoryski family palace gardens, dating from around 1600. Some fragments of the original layout can still be seen today.

The Stanisław Lem Science Garden is the first sensory educational park in Poland. On six hectares of open space, visitors can use more than 110 interactive devices demonstrating various laws of physics.  The aim of this exhibition is learning through play.

The exhibition "Royal Gardens at Wawel", opened to visitors in 2005, presents the only reconstructed Renaissance gardens in Poland from the times of King Zymunt I (around 1540).