"My Forest" at the Forestry Museum

Welcome to the Obwalden Forest – to your forest and our forest. But whose forest is it really? No one can claim the forest for themselves, neither a single group nor a particular generation. The exhibition begins in the past, back when people’s livelihoods were directly dependent on the forest. On the second floor we enter into a dialogue with the present, and in the attic we take a look at the future. Throughout the ages, people have pursued various interests in the forest and there have been a number of conflicts, some of which still exist today. Society must always make an effort to seek out viable solutions by engaging in an exchange of views. This has been true of the forest of the past and present and is certainly the case for the forest of the future.