The forest - used by humans for centuries - is increasingly destroyed with the growing industrialisation from the 19th century onwards. Soon, personalities such as Paul Sarasin and later Bruno Manser emerge and campaign for the preservation of the forest. The exhibition also shows our relationship to the forest through representations in literature and art: once exalted by the Romantics as a place of retreat from civilisation, the forest is now thematised by artists in the context of climate change.