page_title: Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
section_title: Seasonal events
hierarchical_section_title: Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park / Seasonal events
caption_attribution_description: 500px provided description: "Melpomene Longwing" butterfly at Frederik Meijer Gardens &amp; Sculpture Park - Fred &amp; Dorothy Fichter Butterflies are Blooming Exhibit (March 1 - April 30) - Heliconius Melpomene Rosina [#nature ,#flower ,#floral ,#butterfly ,#insect ,#garden ,#caterpillar ,#antenna ,#pollen ,#butterflies ,#delicate ,#moth ,#lepidoptera ,#larva ,#Springtime ,#Heliconius ,#Longwing]
context_page_description: Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is a 158-acre botanical garden, art museum, and outdoor sculpture park located in Grand Rapids Township, Michigan, United States. Opened in 1995, Meijer Gardens quickly established itself in the Midwest as a major cultural attraction jointly focused on horticulture and sculpture.
  Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park includes a large tropical conservatory, an 8-acre Japanese garden, major works of modern and contemporary sculpture on the grounds and indoors, along with a series of outdoor gardens and nature trails.
  It is a well attended cultural site in Michigan, having attracted 750,000 visitors annually between 2015 - 2017. Meijer Gardens has continued to grow their permanent collection of sculpture from major figures in Modern and Contemporary art while building additional structures for indoor and outdoor gardens. In 2018, the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park was included as one of "Eleven of the World's Greatest Sculpture Parks" by Artsy.
context_section_description: Meijer Gardens supports two large seasonal exhibition events, both started in 1995 when the facility first opened: The Fred & Dorothy Fichter Butterflies Are Blooming, and Christmas and Holiday Traditions Around the World.
  Butterflies Are Blooming is held annually in the Lena Meijer Conservatory from March 1 through April 30; it is one of the largest temporary butterfly exhibits in the nation, with thousands of tropical butterflies from Central America, South America, and Asia. The butterfly exhibit is well attended and popular with visitors of all ages.
  Christmas and Holiday Traditions around the World takes place from November through the first week of January.  The Gardens annual event includes the display of holiday items and symbols of more than 40 nations and cultures.  In 2012, the event reportedly offered "horse-drawn carriage rides" through the "candle-lit sculpture park".
caption: Butterflies are Blooming, 2018
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