Across 75,000 square meters in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, Enea brings together the Enea Tree Museum, an arboretum, and a working landscape environment into a unique cultural destination where nature, landscape architecture, and art enter into a living dialogue. As an open-air museum and cultural landscape, the park makes trees, plants, textures, and spatial structures tangible as living design elements shaped by time, care, and expertise.

At the heart of the park, the Enea Tree Museum presents saved and mature trees alongside contemporary artworks, creating a calm, contemplative experience of nature as culture. Rooted in sustainable landscape architecture and long-term stewardship, the Tree Museum invites visitors to explore gardens, trees, and art not as decoration, but as a living, evolving museum of landscape, ecology, and time.

Enea Tree Museum – Facts & Visitor Information

Opening
• Founded in 2010
• Located in a 75,000 m² park on Lake Zurich (Upper Lake) in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
• Part of the extensive grounds of Enea Landscape Architecture, featuring over 3,000 exclusive trees and shrubs
• The Tree Museum itself comprises around 50 rescued trees, some of them over 100 years old

Admission
• Adults: CHF 15.00
• Groups (10 people or more), students, people with disabilities: CHF 12.00
• Guided tours: available upon request

Annual Pass
• CHF 75.00, valid for one year from the date of purchase
• Unlimited admission to the Tree Museum
• For each annual pass sold, five trees are planted through the Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation Switzerland

Dogs at the Tree Museum
• Dogs are permitted in the exhibition
• Leashes are required throughout the entire grounds

Opening Hours
March to October:
• Mon–Fri: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
• Sat: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
November to February:
• Mon–Fri: 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
• Sat: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Closed on Sundays and public holidays

Winter break
• The Tree Museum and the showroom will be closed from 20 December 2025 to 31 January 2026.
Reopening on Monday, 2 February 2026.

The world’s only Tree Museum is an extraordinary place for garden lovers and art enthusiasts alike. Since 2013, contemporary sculptures by renowned artists have also been exhibited throughout the 75,000-square-metre park. These works of art enter into a subtle dialogue with the garden landscape and expand the holistic ambition of Enea’s design concept.

The long-term project “Art in the Tree Museum” revives the traditional connection between nature and art. With this initiative, Enzo Enea brings a tradition that had almost disappeared in the 20th century back into contemporary art discourse. The precise choreography of the relationship between art, landscape, and plants creates a unique and fascinating spatial experience while also having a positive effect on the microclimate. “It’s not about decoration, but about integration,” says Enzo Enea.

For this passionate project, highly distinguished representatives of international contemporary art are continuously invited to participate. Their sculptures shape impressive spatial, colour, and formal experiences in many different facets—rising prominently against the pre-Alpine horizon or setting striking accents within the precisely curated garden landscape.

Current Exhibition: Sylvie Fleury, Richard Erdman, Jaume Plensa, Sergio Tappa, Claire Morgan, Jean Dubuffet, Cristian Andersen, James Licini, Stella Hamberg, Jürgen Drescher, Izumi Masathoshi, Jérémie Crettol, Nigel Hall, Veronica Mar, Olaf Nicolai, Lilian Bourgeat, John Giorno, Claire Morgan, Ugo Rondinone, Kerim Seiler, herman de vries, Sara Kieffer und Maximilian Prüfer.

Richard Erdman was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Vermont, USA, in May 2016. The internationally acclaimed artist created major works such as Passage, considered the largest sculpture carved from a single block. Enea recognized the quality of Erdman’s work early on and gave his sculptures Fiora, Spira, (Volante), and Sentinel space to unfold at the Tree Museum.

From Basel to Zurich and on to Venice, the walk-in Arena for a Tree has traveled widely and has now found its final home at the Enea Tree Museum. This work by Klaus Littmann is being donated to the Tree Museum of Enzo Enea by the Basel H. Geiger Cultural Foundation. As a result, the Arena for a Tree will remain accessible to the public, offering space for a wide range of activities that communicate the value of trees and nature in dialogue with people. The Arena for a Tree emerged like a seed from the temporary art intervention FOR FOREST – The Unbroken. Attraction of Nature by Klaus Littmann. While the project in Klagenfurt featured 299 trees, the Arena for a Tree focuses entirely on a single tree. Both groundbreaking projects were presented publicly and conveyed a strong message for environmental awareness and sustainable urban development. For the arena at the Enea Tree Museum, the Japanese zelkova was selected as the “tree of the future.” It is a highly climate-resilient, deciduous tree that creates a pleasant microclimate with its large canopy and provides ample shade. Zelkovas are regarded as particularly robust street trees in major cities such as Tokyo and New York.