Goethe-Garten Pune (EN)
Illustrated. Archived. Live.
Spread across more than 5,000 square metres, the Goethe-Garten Pune is home to an impressive richness of vegetation and ecological diversity. Now visible. For everyone. Everywhere. Goethe-Garten Pune makes the trees and plants of Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Pune accessible to all. Visitors can discover ecological diversity and experience a living botanical library.
The garden cosmos of Goethe-Institut Pune was established in the 1950s. It soon flourished into a veritable oasis. As the city of Pune grew denser, its streets louder, and concrete increasingly came to define the horizon, Goethe-Garten Pune remained a place of encounter and exchange, of literature and music beneath open skies, of conversations in the shade of old trees, and of moments of quiet reflection.
Goethe-Garten Pune is meant to be accessible to all. To this end, we have documented and illustrated its plants in all their constituent parts—leaf, fruit, bark, and seed—drawing on botanical knowledge and observation.
Goethe-Garten Pune is a digital herbarium. The illustrations, inspired by the tradition of the naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian, reveal the forms, structures, and growth principles of plants. They invite us to perceive the intricate relationships that shape botanical and ecological life. They sharpen our attention to detail and translate scientific observation into an accessible visual language.
In doing so, they open Goethe-Garten Pune to the senses. Here, in digital form. And there, in the living landscape itself.
