Jardin botanique de l'Arquebuse, Botanical garden in Dijon, France

The Jardin botanique de l'Arquebuse is a botanical garden in Dijon displaying about 4,000 plant species organized by theme and purpose. It sits within a larger park setting and includes collections of medicinal plants, food plants, vines, and specimens from around the world.

The site was the training ground of Dijon's company of arquebusiers, installed there in 1543 behind what is now Dijon-Ville station. In the late 18th century its last captain, Marc-Antoine Chartraire de Montigny, paid for an English garden laid out to designs by Jean-Marie Morel; the city acquired it in 1803. In 1833 plants from Dijon's first botanical garden, founded in 1771 by Bénigne Le Gouz de Gerland, were moved here.

The garden's name comes from the arquebusiers' company that trained on this ground from 1543; its natural history museum opened in 1836 in their former buildings. The Hubert Curien planetarium, named for the physicist behind the Ariane rocket, has a 10-metre dome. A stream, the Raines, crosses the park and carries swans and ducks.

The garden is open daily and free to enter from dawn until dusk, so you can visit at your own pace. Paths lead through all sections, and you can spend as much or as little time as you want in each area.

The garden grows over 70 different vine varieties and maintains an archive of about 100,000 dried plant specimens. This collection serves as a reference record of plant diversity over time and supports the scientific work of the garden.