The timber building
Among Finland's largest wooden buildings.
Tiedekeskus Pilke โ CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท Ninara โ CC BY 2.0 ยท Frozenmadness โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Frozenmadness โ CC BY-SA 4.0
Three quarters of the country is forest, and paper and timber were its economic backbone for a century; Pilke explains it to children through simulation.
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The Finnish forest from inside: Pilke is a small science centre about northern forests next to Arktikum, in an all-timber building put up by the Finnish forestry administration โ the idea being to grasp with your hands how a forest grows, is felled and used: driving a harvester on a real simulator, a lumberjack game, measuring a tree's age, wood products from paper to fuel. Designed for children from five up, with adults enjoying the simulators; an hour suffices, and the shop sells Lappish woodcraft. The nearby Forestry Museum completes the picture historically for the keen. Best paired with Arktikum in one morning on the combined ticket โ both on the riverbank next to each other.
Among Finland's largest wooden buildings.
Fell, haul and sell โ the forest as economy.
Ounasjoentie 6, Rovaniemi