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This “Literati Style” azalea bonsai, created by the museum’s first curator, Robert Drechsler, is
displayed with a waterfall scroll in a spring Satsuki Azalea Exhibit.

The museum’s annual displays include a fall foliage exhibit highlighting bonsai from each of its
collections whose leaves change color or fruit at summer’s end.
The museum’s formal display areas are the Special Exhibits Wing and the
tokonoma, both in the Exhibits Gallery. A tokonoma is an alcove in a Japanese
home where art and other cherished objects are often displayed. These can
include pictorial or calligraphic scrolls complementing a flower arrangement,
bonsai or viewing stone. A tokonoma is only entered to change the display and it
is typical to have a rough-hewn wood pillar on one side of its opening to set its
tone.
Like any museum, the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum presents
changing themed exhibits to enhance visitors’ understanding of bonsai, penjing,

viewing stones and related arts like kusamono, ikebana flower arranging and pot