Enea Tree Museum

Enea Tree Museum, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland

The Enea Tree Museum is a 75,000 m² 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.

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  Access
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  Reception building and café
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  Orangery
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  The main building in the background
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  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:

Fan Maple (Acer palmatum) Persian Ironwood (Parrotia persica) Japanese larch (Larix kaempferi 'Diana') Japanese cherry (Prunus serrulata) Umbrella Pine (Sciadopitys verticillata) Flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus) Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) Japanese Yew (Taxus cuspidata) Catawba rhododendron (Rhododendron Catawbiense) Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) Catalpa (Catalpa bignonioides) Common plum (Prunus domestica) Hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Nana Gracilis') London plane (Platanus × hispanica)

Chinese Junipers (Juniperus media 'Hetzii') Chinese Magnolia (Magnolia x soulangeana) Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii) Dutch Elm (Ulmus x hollandica 'Jacqueline Hillier') Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) Full moon maple (Acer japonicum 'Aconitifolium') Paperback Maple (Acer griseum) Maidenhair tree (Ginkgo biloba) Horse-chestnut Tree (Aesculus hippocastanum) Sargent crabapple (Malus toringo sargentii) Japanese maple (A. palmatum 'Dissectum Garnet') White pine (Pinus parviflora) Small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata)

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

External links

• Enea Tree Museum
• Report on the opening in the New York Times
• Report by Arte Metropolis
• Report on welt.de
• Portrait by myswitzerland.com