In the lobby of the Nevin Welcome Center, works of art and plant-focused displays change throughout the year.

Welcome Center Hours

students exploring plants in a garden

Cultivating Hope: Plants and Indigenous Knowledge

This plant exhibition features plants and the Indigenous knowledge they hold, which share how relationships rooted in respect, reciprocity, and responsibility have sustained people and the natural world for generations and continue to do so today. 

Past Exhibits

Explore plants indispensable to cultures around the world.

Past Exhibit
Seeds of Survival and Celebration

This garden and exhibit tell stories of the deep connections of the formerly enslaved to plants and illustrate their contributions to the cuisines enjoyed across American society today.

White Pine
Past Exhibit
White Pine: Tree of Peace

The white pine is a powerful cultural symbol of peace to the Haudenosaunee.

Peppers Around the World
Past Exhibit
Peppers Around the World

Cultivated peppers traveled from Central and South America to quickly make their way around the globe.