Weyerhaeuser Bonsai Exhibit

Pacific bonsai museum federal way.
Weyerhaeuser bonsai exhibit. We will do our best to continue to share our bonsai love here and on facebook instagram and youtube. This cultural gem offers contemporary and traditional bonsai exhibitions group tours education program field trips and public events. The pacific rim bonsai collection is located on weyerhaeuser company s corporate campus 33663 weyerhaeuser way south in federal way. It will have a brief reopening mother s day weekend for federal way s.
Hours address pacific bonsai museum reviews. Know that the bonsai will be well taken care of and ready to see you when the time comes. All reviews rhododendron garden on display outdoor museum living art world class seattle tacoma seatac airport tree donation exhibits banzai beauty. A grand outdoor setting with the elegance of a fine art museum pacific bonsai museum features sixty trees on exhibit at a given time open to the public six days a week.
It is mostly an outdoor collection and fairly young but there are some beautiful specimens and many include the story of the tree which i enjoyed. Website 1 253 353 7345. Drive 1 4 mile to the east entrance of the weyerhaeuser corporate headquarters. Weyerhaeuser s collection of 60 bonsai a gift to the state on its 100th birthday 20 years ago will close after wednesday.
Please stay home take care of yourselves be safe and well. Follow the signs marked rhododendron and bonsai gardens passengers may unload at the visitor drop off which is on the left or continue to the garden visitor parking lot west lot located on the right just past the pedestrian crosswalk. With bonsai artifacts documents and photographs the exhibition shares the little known stories of the people who ingeniously and courageously cared for bonsai shared their art and spurred a flourishing global practice despite overwhelming hardships. In the meantime we invite you to join our community online.
Over the years bonsai of the highest caliber have been donated and accessioned into the museum s collection. A large part of our collection was amassed in 1989 when the collection was founded by the weyerhaeuser company by an acquisition team who selected bonsai to represent countries of the pacific rim. Nestled by the weyerhaeuser building the pacific bonsai museum is an oasis of exquisite bonsai. Adjacent to the flagstone walkway leading to the garden of the pine wind or asian garden is the weyerhaeuser bonsai garden.
Admission is by donation which is payable by cash or credit when you finish the visit. Hours are 10 am 4 pm friday through wednesday closed thursday.