Boom Museum
They took all the trees
Put em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see em
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
-Joni Mitchell
Joni heeft erover gezongen maar de Finse kunstenaar Ilkka Halso heeft het ontworpen: het Museum voor de Natuur.
De kunstenaar zelf zegt het volgende:
“I make plans and construct visually buildings, which protect nature from threats of pollution and what is more important, from actions of man himself.
Beschermde natuur
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.”
Zijn Engels is misschien niet perfect, maar de bedoeling is duidelijk: enerzijds de natuur bewaren en beschermen, anderzijds het bekijken en beleven van de natuur door de mens.