The park used to be the garden of the Jesuit Pius Grammar School. Following the foundation of the Biology Department at the former Teachers’ Training College, its development into a botanical garden was launched in 1952. The garden is under the professional supervision of the Department of Ecology and the Department of Plant Biolofy at the Faculty of Sciences, while its financial management belongs to the central financial body of the university.
The garden was declared a county nature conservation area in 1989.
More than 5000 plant taxa are on display on the 6,85 ha area.