Tree Museum by Ilkka Halso

They took all the treesPut em in a tree museumAnd they charged the peopleA dollar and a half just to see emDon't it always seem to goThat you don't know what you've gotTill its goneThey paved paradiseAnd put up a parking lot

-Joni Mitchell

Joni sang about it, and Ilkka has designed it: the Museum of Nature. The artist writes:

I make plans and construct visually buildings, which protect nature from threats of pollution and what is more important, from actions of man himself.

I visualize shelters, massive buildings where big ecosystems could be stored as at present. These massive building protect forests, lakes and rivers from pollution and what is more important from actions of man himself. At the same time I study different aspects of man's relation to nature as rare unique endangered place.

While putting nature into a museum you have to take under consideration aspect of audience/ consumer. Nature becomes joyride for tourists or beautiful landscape turns into a meditative theatre show.