Weyerhaeuser Bonsai Exhibit
Hours are 10 am 4 pm friday through wednesday closed thursday.
Weyerhaeuser bonsai exhibit. Pacific bonsai museum federal way. The intimate garden hidden from the main trail by a coppice of small trees is a showplace for bonsai bone sigh the ancient art of growing miniaturized forms of trees and bushes in trays or shallow pots. Please stay home take care of yourselves be safe and well. Best in the northwest has been created to showcase bonsai designed and maintained by regional talent located within the pacific northwest.
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. Over the years bonsai of the highest caliber have been donated and accessioned into the museum s collection. It will have a brief reopening mother s day weekend for federal way s. We will do our best to continue to share our bonsai love here and on facebook instagram and youtube.
Website 1 253 353 7345. 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. 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.
The pacific rim bonsai collection is located on weyerhaeuser company s corporate campus 33663 weyerhaeuser way south in federal way. 2515 s 336th st weyerhaeuser corporate campus federal way wa 98001 9769. Hours address pacific bonsai museum reviews. In the meantime we invite you to join our community online.
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. Know that the bonsai will be well taken care of and ready to see you when the time comes. 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. Drive 1 4 mile to the east entrance of the weyerhaeuser corporate headquarters.
Admission is by donation which is payable by cash or credit when you finish the visit. Weyerhaeuser s collection of 60 bonsai a gift to the state on its 100th birthday 20 years ago will close after wednesday.