The Tree Museum is not a building. It is a narrated walk of 100 trees of 24 species along the Grand Concourse between 138th Street and the Moshulu Parkway in the Bronx. The public art project was designed by visual artist Katie Holten in 2009. The audio guide has been discontinued but you can still walk the project and gaze at the trees. Download the map.
There are "more than 60 species of trees currently growing along the Grand Concourse. This is more than 70 percent of the species we plant citywide, making the Concourse not only grand, but also diverse," said Jonathan Pywell, Bronx Senor Forester, NYC Dept. of Parks & Recreation to Katie Holten. The 24 species featured in the Tree Museum are:
Ailanthus
Ailanthus altissima
Amur corktree
Phellodendron amurense
Green ash
Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Cottonwood
Populus
Crabapple
Malus
Kwanzan cherry
Prunus serrulata 'Kwanzan'
American elm
Ulmus americana
Chinese elm
Ulmus parvifola
Ginkgo
Ginkgo biloba
Hackberry
Celtis occidentalis
Hawthorn
Crataegus
Kentucky coffeetree
Gymnocladus diocia
Littleleaf linden
Tilia cordata
Honeylocust
Gleditsia triacanthos
London planetree
Platanus x acerifola
Norway maple
Acer platanoides
Red maple
Acer rubrum
Northern red oak
Quercus rubra
Pin oak
Quercus palustris
Willow oak
Quercus phellos
Callery pear
Pyrus calleryana
White pine
Pinus strobus
Sophora
Sophora japonica [now Styphnolobium japonicum]
Zelkova
Zelkova serrata
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