Garden
Palmenhaus im Hofgarten
Cast-iron and glass greenhouse sheltering thousands of tropical plants across three climate zones.
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This guide to the Palmenhaus im Hofgarten in Innsbruck starts with the crowds who paid to walk through it in eighteen sixty, on the day of the city's first flower exhibition. It follows the glasshouse into the nineteen forties and fifties, when the zoologist Hans Psenner turned it into something stranger than a botanical garden. You'll hear what he was really building, one paying weekend at a time. Best heard standing at the entrance, looking up through the panes.
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