Lusto - Forest Museum

July 13, 2016, Wednesday ...
The rain was in the morning...
We did not want to ride bicycles in the rain, but we were bored in our room.
"Do you want to visit the museum?" - I said.
"A museum"? - my wife was surprised.
Yes, the forest museum - "Lusto".
http://www.lusto.fi/en/

Lusto - the Finnish Forest Museum is located on Saimaa, near the town of Punkaharju.
Here are its coordinates: 61°48'00.4"N, 29°19'14.8"E
You will meet on the road a peasant with a sleigh of firewood...
"Where did you get the firewood? - From the forest, of course...
Do you hear, my father cutts down trees and I carry firewood." (Nekrasov N. - a Russian poet).

If translated from Finnish, then Lusto means "annual ring of tree"
Therefore, the museum building and exhibition halls were created in the form of a ring.

The Finns love, cherish, guard and study the forest...
The forests occupy most of the country's territory.
The forest has always been the source of the existence of the Finns, the country's economy, national culture and way of life are connected with the forest.

Therefore, it is no wonder that in Finland there is the Forest Museum, where you can learn about the green spaces, about the past and present and spend time with your family.
In the halls of the museum smells like a tree and exhibits, models, equipments were chosen very carefully, with love.

"Lusto" is not only a national museum, but a scientific exhibition centre of Finnish forest culture that studies the interaction between man and the forest from the past to the future.
Now the museum has 13,000 exhibits, 1,500 films and 350,000 photos related to the history and culture of the forest.

The main exhibition of the museum acquaint visitors with the history of forestry in Finland, with folk traditions.
There are days of demonstration of folk crafts, you can see the work of a sculptor with a chainsaw and making baskets from a birch bark.

The Forest festival "Metku" takes place in the museum every summer.
This is a forest fair, forestry work exhibits, excursions and music...

A lot of stands and photos will tell us about the history of forestry and its protection.

The Forest protection with planes...

You will learn what is 1 cubic meter of wood...

And how does a wood stove work?..

You will learn about the inhabitants of the forest...

And the Hunting Lodge of the ancient hunter...

Many exhibits are made as toys: you can touch them, you can walk between them.

And the kids can run between the "birches"...

There are many interesting things for children in the museum...
Children can look into the bear's den, get into the lodge on the tree and put on forest costumes...

If you understand wood, then try to determine what kind of trees it are...

We moved to the hall of forestry machines...
The exhibition "Time of Machines" is located here.
You will see unique logging machines: from simples to moderns.
Because for the rapid processing of such trees...

We need such powerful machines...

There are 120 different chainsaw patterns in museum that you can see here.

It is a tractor...

And a huge woodworking complex...

You can see on the monitors how the tree turns into whiteboards in a few seconds...
You can try yourself in the role of a worker by controlling a simulator with a real wood loader.

If you are tired of the noise of machines, you can go to the "Room of Silence".
When your enter the Room of Silence you will find yourself near a virtual forest pond in autumn, where you can experience the peace and quiet of nature.
Swans are setting off on their migration, the fish splash about in the water...

We continued the visit of the exhibition in the courtyard of the museum...

Here the boats were repairing...

Here the boats were laying in winter...

The rain ended and we were sitting on the bench, enjoyed the beauty and freshness of nature.

The Forest Museum "Lusto" on the shore of Saimaa...