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In addition to the extensive outdoor area, there are 15 show greenhouses in the botanical garden, above all the Great Tropical Greenhouse, which immerses visitors in the plant world between the Caribbean and Southeast Asia with palm trees, giant bamboo and lianas.

With an area of 43 hectares and around 20,000 plant species, the Botanical Garden in the south-west of Berlin is not only one of the largest botanical gardens in the world, but also one of the most species-rich. It is a green oasis in the city and is popular with Berliners and tourists at any time of year. The garden was opened at the beginning of the 20th century with the aim of making a scientific collection of living plants accessible to visitors. With this in mind, it was laid out from 1897 to 1910 according to plans by architect Alfred Koerner and under the direction of garden director Adolf Engler.

The complex, now a central facility of the Freie Universität, consists of various areas: In several gardens, visitors can immerse themselves in very different plant worlds, such as the swamp and water garden, the medicinal plant garden or the Italian garden. In the 1980s, a 3000 square meter scent and touch garden was created for the visually impaired and wheelchair users. Depending on the season, various signposted paths lead through the garden past the most beautiful plants and flowers of the moment. There are also 15 greenhouses on the grounds, which show the plant world of the tropics and subtropics. Particularly worth seeing is the large tropical greenhouse, built in 1907, which is 25 meters high and covers an area of around 1700 square meters - one of the largest in the world and a prominent example of 19th century glass and steel architecture.

In the years 1905/06, the Botanical Museum at the entrance to Königin-Luise-Straße was created from the holdings of the former Royal Herbarium on the grounds of the former Botanical Gardens in Schöneberg (now Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park). In addition to extensive scientific plant collections - including the General Herbarium with around 3.5 million herbarium sheets - it also includes the Schaumuseum, the only purely botanical museum in Europe. In addition to numerous models of the plant kingdom, visitors can also study the plant objects found in Egyptian pharaohs' tombs.