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Read moreSpring awakening at the visitor center in Sihlwald
A few days ago, visitors were once again welcomed to the Sihlwald Nature Museum. The current exhibition "WaldWildnisWir" makes the wild Sihlwald tangible and thus creates an understanding of unique habitats. These can be discovered with all the senses right outside the museum doors.
Nature has priority in Sihlwald. No more trees have been felled since 2000 and a natural forest has been created. Primeval forest species such as the lesser spherical beetle and the lemon-yellow tramete feel at home here again. What drives animals and plants that were thought lost, but also us humans, to come to the Sihlwald Nature Discovery Park? Answers to these and many other questions can be found in the "WaldWildnisWir" exhibition. "The special habitats in the natural forest often remain hidden to us forest visitors, we overlook them. This is where the exhibition comes in - it awakens a fascination for a very special microcosm that can also be explored further right outside the museum door," explains Bettina Gutbrodt, Head of Education at the Zurich Wilderness Park Foundation. The exhibition was created in 2020 to celebrate Sihlwald's tenth anniversary as a "Nature Discovery Park - Park of National Importance".
Due to the pandemic, no offers from the varied 2021 annual program can currently be carried out. Bettina Gutbrodt is nevertheless optimistic: "According to the Federal Council's current decision, there is hope that our guided tours and events will be able to take place again from May". Since last Sunday, the wilderness messengers have also been circulating the area of the visitor center and Langenberg Animal Park on Sundays in dry weather as information and supervision staff. At weekends and on public holidays, the Sihlwald restaurant offers a take-away service - also only in good weather. Masks are compulsory in the visitor center.
