In 1797, Johann Gottlieb Schultz purchased the whole area and started planting various trees and shrubs in order to establish a botanical garden.

After his death, the garden became the property of the Protestant Royal Academic Gymnasium in Toruń (Królewskie Gimnazjum w Toruniu).

In 1963 and 1964, thanks to Arnbert Sadecki, who resided in Argentina, a number of animals were transferred to Toruń, which led to the creation of the zoological garden.

[4] In the zoo visitors can also see such animals as brown bears, European bisons, meerkats, mouflons, lynxes, porcupines, ostriches, Reeves's muntjacs, red-necked wallabies, long-tailed gorals, alpacas, and wild goats.

[5] Among the notable legally protected plants in the garden's collection are: London plane, Austrian pine, Ginkgo biloba, Turkish hazel, beech and European oak.