Project Phases
The Lost Museum of Trees is primarily a health and well-being initiative which aims to reconnect us to the benefits of forest environments through an exchange of and reconnection to forest culture, storytelling and creative learning. The project combines hands on experiential learning with creativity, literacy and tree planting in a community woodland setting.
The Lost Museum of Trees project was divided into different project phases, an overview of the phases can be found below.
Click on the different phases titles below to find more information on each project phase.
Phase One – Creating Stories
The main core theme of the Lost Museum was to explore both the nature of experience and the value of creating our own traditional stories.
Phase 3 Story Exchange
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In the spring of 2023 the stories started travelling to various Northern Forest communities through the Living in the Landscape Project run by the Arctic University Network. The stories travelled inside handpainted wooden snow bunting boxes - the snow bunting being a symbol of good fortune and hope.
The Lost Museum of Trees project recognizes the importance of the stories and the role they can play in reconnecting people to nature. After the stories are written and illustrated groups were invited to make an act of kindness to the forest or to nature.
Phase Two – Making The Forest Library
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Once written the story makers were then invited to illustrate them. Sometimes the illustrating became a group collaborative task because of time restraints.
Phase 4- Exhibitions and Events
Over the next years, the Forest Library and story exchange will continue to grow and develop within the Highlands and interchange with other Northern Forest Communities.
Our hope is that The Lost Museum of Trees project will continue to grow and develop through the exchange of stories and workshops within the Highlands of Scotland and other Northern Forest communities.
Watch this space!
