Lumber Industry Visitor Centre in Modrava in The Bohemian Forest

A permanent interactive exhibition that will introduce visitors to the secrets of the properties of wood.

This center complex offers unusual experiences which you do not encounter elsewhere. All experiences are directed to a single material and that is lumber.
The aim of the center is to show visitors how the lumber can be used and what all it can do under the influence of various instruments, energy, and conditions. The goal of center is to visitors leave the center with the feeling "that wood is a great and wonderful material and I made a mistake that I had not it in my life more round me.
In addition to the interactive exhibition the center offers to a visitor an active participation in the workshop on creating objects from wood.

Village Modrava is a well-known center of mountain tourism year round. It consists of three original settlements: Modrava, Filipova Hut, Vchynice-Tetov. It lies at an altitude of 985 m at the confluence of three streams - Modravsky, Filipohutsky and Roklansky and by this confluence there is made a river Vydra. The place is also famous for novels by Karel Klostermann.

Bienert´s lumber-mill
On the bank of the Roklan´s stream in Modrava there is located a historic monument, which served like a lumber-mill for a resonant wood in the history, which was founded by Bienert Francis (1788-1866), a native of Warnsdorf. Few people know today that a certain type of the Bohemian Forest pine wood is characterized by specific properties – by the resonance, which was suitable for the production of pianos and its keys.

Wood floating around Modrava
After 1790, there became to a great economic activity in the Bohemian Forest, focusing particularly on logging. The overall working was not very profitable due to high costs of timber transport. It was not possible to supply the Bohemian Forest wood to inland and in particular to Prague, where was a great lack of the wood and its price rose rapidly. These circumstances led to the construction of the floating channels allowing the logging and rafting from unused forests.