Neukom Vivarium

Mark Dion’s Neukom Vivarium houses a sixty-foot nurse log in an eighty-foot greenhouse. As the tree decays, other organisms live on it.

The work

Magnifying glasses and blue-and-white tiles of fungi, lichens, plants and insects give the room the character of a field station.

Before you go

Magnifiers show what the eye misses. The log keeps decaying, so the work changes between visits.