Nymphengarten, Public park near Natural History Museum in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Nymphengarten is a green space in Karlsruhe that extends from the Natural History Museum grounds to Lammstrasse and is bordered on its western side by the Federal Court of Justice building. The area features open lawns, tree-lined paths, and various artworks that invite walking and lingering.

A first park was laid out here in 1730, fifteen years after Karlsruhe's founding, on an idea of Margrave Karl Wilhelm. From 1788 garden inspector Friedrich Schweickardt, who had planned the Fasanengarten, remade it as a pleasure garden ringed by a ha-ha and named Erbprinzengarten. After Karl Joseph Berckmüller's natural history museum was built on the site in 1873, the grounds were split into Friedrichsplatz to the north and the Nymphengarten to the south.

The garden takes its name from the Nymphenbrunnen, a bronze fountain set up in 1891, created by sculptor Heinrich Weltring and showing several nymphs, some entirely nude. The fountain was built at the south end of the grounds on the initiative of garden director Friedrich Ries.

The garden runs between the rear of the Natural History Museum pavilion and Lammstraße, with the Federal Court of Justice grounds on its western edge. Enter from Lammstraße or from the Friedrichsplatz side; the nymph fountain stands at the southern end. Paths cross the lawns, so it works as a through-route between the museum quarter and the court.

From 1880 to 1897, the Karlsruhe Observatory occupied this site before moving to higher ground near Heidelberg. This astronomical chapter of the location's past is barely visible today but represents an interesting part of what once happened here.