It operates as part of the University of Copenhagen's Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management.
[1] Hørsholm Arboretum was established by the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in 1936 as an off-site expansion of the Forestry Botanical Garden in Charlottenlund.
[2] The Forest & Landscape research center was built in 1994–95 to design by royal building inspector Gehrdt Bornebusch.
The use of wood, both elm and pine, plays a prominent role in the architecture.
It is particularly popular with visitors in May when the extensive collection of wild rhododendron species blossom.