Wild Wild Wood

Wild Wild Wood is a multi-sensory, interactive and visually powerful exhibition that offers a wide range of insights into wood as a material. Wild Wild Wood presents the natural properties and meanings of wood, as well as its modern and traditional uses.

A selection of exhibits from the Wild Wild Wood exhibition at Heureka has been selected for Pielinen Museum, adapted to the size of the museum's exhibition hall. Wild Wild Wood exhibition is suitable for all visitors, families, students as well as adults. The texts in the exhibition are in Finnish, Swedish and English.

The exhibits on display at the Pielinen Museum are:

What’s that tree?
Our friend the tree
Building a house
Living facades
Guess the tree
Discover your favourite wood
Charmed by a tree

Wild Wild Wood exhibition has been awarded the internationally acclaimed Red Dot Design Award in the "Brands & Communication Design 2022" category. The Red Dot Design Award is one of the largest, oldest and most prestigious design competitions in the world.

Heureka Science Centre's Wild Wild Wood exhibition partners are the Ministry of the Environment's Wood Building Programme, Federation of the Finnish Woodworking Industries, Finnish Forest Foundation, Metsä Wood, Stora Enso, UPM Plywood, Isku, Novart and Versowood.

What is your favourite tree? How well do you recognise different types of wood? And what kind of life story does a garden birch have to tell? The exhibition offers lots of fun things to do together!

In the exhibition you can, among other things:

Learn about the characteristics and uses of different tree species

Listen to the story of a 100-year-old birch tree

Learn about the different types of birch trees and how to build a house

Print your character on a large wooden surface wall

Play a wood species guessing game with a friend

In collaboration with Heureka www.heureka.fi/­en