The active care and maintenance of natural areas which seeks to control exotic invasive species, encourage characteristic native species, and reestablish natural processes upon which native ecosystems depend. Click here to learn more!

With each passing year, MBGNA's facilities becomes increasingly popular as sites for all types of events. It seems space rental requests, both indoors and outdoors, are growing right along with our plants.

Share the beauty of your day amidst botanical splendor and capture spectacular memories.
A garden wedding at Matthaei Botanical Gardens would be the perfect setting for your special day. Your beautiful ceremony will be set against a lush garden backdrop. You may even choose to celebrate your reception on the expansive patio with panoramic views of Matthaei's award-winning gardens and in the auditorium where floor-to-ceiling windows overlook the breathtaking Gateway Garden of New World Plants. For your once in a lifetime event, pick a garden setting you and your guests will never forget.
Select from our colorful formal gardens, natural settings or the Conservatory. Whether you are considering an outdoor ceremony on Willow Pond Island or in the Perennial Garden, Alexandra Hicks Herb Knot Garden, Gateway Garden of New World Plants, or you would like an indoor ceremony in the Conservatory, Matthaei Botanical Gardens offers ideal locations for every sentiment. In addition, showers, rehearsal dinners and receptions may be held in the Matthaei auditorium and adjourning outdoor terrace.
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Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum offer meeting rooms available to groups to rent. Many departments and businesses look to MBGNA to provide a warm, pleasant, and comfortable space to hold staff retreats, conferences, etc. They are not left disappointed. Many people have found the atmosphere provided by the natural surroundings induces and fosters open communication and thereby generating productive results.
Matthaei also is used by many as a place to hold a birthday party, a wedding reception or celebrate a religious event (like a Christmas party or a Bar Mitzvah). The space is conducive to making people feel welcome and at home, all the while functioning as a place of beauty to highlight whatever the occasion evermore.
For more information, please check out the form below, or feel free to contact us at anytime by email or by phone at 734-647-7808.
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