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Enea Tree Museum, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland

The Enea Tree Museum is a 75,000 m park near Lake Zurich in Rapperswil-Jona, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The tree museum shows over 50 trees from over 25 species as well as sculptures by international artists.

History

The tree museum, founded in 2010, was planned and built by landscape architect Enzo Enea. The property at Lake Zürich was leased from the Mariazell-Wurmsbach Cistercian Abbey. Before the construction, water had to be extracted from the former wetland. For this purpose, an avenue of swamp cypresses was set up. This tree species naturally extracts a lot of water from the soil (evapotranspiration). Today this avenue forms the entrance to the tree museum. The museum has been open to the public since it opened.

  • Access Access
  • Reception building and café Reception building and café
  • Orangery Orangery
  • The main building in the background The main building in the background
  • In the park In the park

Tree population

The trees growing in the tree museum should have been felled, but were rescued by Enea and replanted in the tree museum. The following specimens belong to the tree population:

Art

Sculptures by international artists can be found in the tree museum. The following works of art are curated in the Tree Museum:

  • 3 Königinnen, Risch / Duosch
  • Alpaka, Jürgen Drescher
  • Animello, Sergio Tappa
  • Antenna, Steve Claydon
  • Around Tiger Island, Nigel Hall
  • Berserker II, Stalla Hamberg
  • Bird, Cristian Andersen
  • Dew of Moon, Masatoshi Izumi
  • Fiora, Richard Erdmann
  • Fiora – Working Model, Richard Erdmann
  • Fiore, Manolo Valdés
  • Inselbuch, Das, Martin Kippenberger
  • Infanta Margarita, Manolo Valdés
  • Lou, Jaume Plensa
  • Meander, James Licini
  • Mushrooms, Sylvie Fleury
  • Pulpo Otto, Jeremie Crettol
  • Remos Schnauz, Sergio Tappa
  • Relay, Kerim Seiler
  • Schweinebauch, Olaf Nicolai
  • Sentinel, Richard Erdman
  • Sentinel – Working Model, Richard Erdmann
  • Sentinel, Jaume Plensa
  • Sleeping Mountain, Masatoshi Izumi
  • Snailholesuperlove, Jeremie Crettol
  • Southern Shade V, Nigel Hall
  • Spira, Richard Erdmann
  • Unlimited & Limiters, Steve Claydon
  • Wasserhahn, Risch / Duosch
  • WVZ 147, Elmar Trenkwalder

References

  1. "Enea Baummuseum". Stadt Rapperswil-Jona (in German). Stadt Rapperswil-Jona. Archived from the original on 2020-01-14. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
  2. Bruno Knellwolf, Bruno Knellwolf. "Bäume als Kunstwerke" (in German). Retrieved 2019-09-17.

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