The Museum of the Wood Age

A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood the material that shaped human history. Wood humankind's long-term partner in our evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptability and availability. The Museum of the Wood Age investigates the influence of basic devices wedge, inclined plane, screw, lever, wheel, axle and pulley to reveal the myriad ways in which wood has been worked throughout human history. From the simple bivouacs of hunter-gatherers to sophisticated wooden buildings such as stave churches; from the decorative arts to the humble woodworking of rustic furniture; Max Adams fashions a lattice of interconnected stories and objects that trace a path of human ingenuity across half a million years of history.