History
BAM - Biblioteca degli Alberi Milano is a contemporary park conceived as an urban botanical library with an incredible wealth of plants. It contains over 100 botanical species, more than 500 trees forming 22 circular forests and 135,000 aromatic plants, hedges, shrubs, bulbs, creepers and herbaceous plants. It also features a small pond hosting aquatic plant: this creates an ideal ecosystem for pollinating insects bird.
To complete the botanical richness, the BAM Butterfly and Insect Oasis will be inaugurated in 2025: a rose garden with over 100 varieties of roses and a collection of nectariferous and nourishing plants planted to increase the biodiversity of the park, designed with the aim of becoming a model for accessibility for people with physical and cognitive disabilities. The new area also hosts two Bugs Hotels, the result of a public competition won by a primary school of Milan. Biblioteca degli Alberi depicts an innovative publicprivate partnership. A park of the municipality of Milan built by COIMA, it is managed by Fondazione Riccardo Catella, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2025 and which with the creation of the BAM project, is tasked with its maintenance, security and cultural programme.
The Biblioteca degli Alberi, designed by the Dutch studio Inside Outside|Petra Blaisse, was inaugurated on September 8, 2019 with an open-air concert with the Philharmonic of the Scala and the presence of over 3.000 people, confirming its vocation as a cultural landmark of the city: with its 10 hectares, BAM is a magical place where vegetation and paths intertwine, creating green rooms, irregular fields, circular forests, flowering lawns and equipped areas for children's play and for fitness and where the paving is designed with cutting edge features.
BAM is a cultural park that looks to international examples and presents itself as a model for the future developments of urban parks in Italy. An open-air theatre, BAM has tasked its cultural director with the creation of a programme offering more than 250 cultural moments a year, free of charge and devoted to the nature-culture combination.
These activities go by the name of BAMoment: spread out all year long to celebrate the paces of nature, conceived to be experienced outdoors, and draw inspiration from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
