The exhibition “ROAD AND ENVIRONMENT” explores the relationship between roads and the environment and their mutual impacts. Visitors are guided into the everyday reality of road management through the concept of the road life cycle.
A road’s life cycle begins with need and analysis, followed by planning, design, and engineering. The designed solution enters the environment during the construction phase, after which continuous monitoring, improvement, and maintenance take place. The final stage of the road life cycle is the removal of a road section, after which the land can be given a new purpose, such as becoming forest land.
The exhibition introduces materials used in road construction, including pipes, culverts, grids, textiles, as well as sand, gravel, crushed stone, bitumen, asphalt mixtures, and lignin. Visitors can try their hand as a road builder and maintenance worker and explore what happens in environmental structures connected to roads.
We invite visitors to reflect on the road life cycle and encourage them to ask how roads and the environment influence one another. We examine how excessive environmental impacts of road construction can be prevented, mitigated, or, when necessary, compensated. Visitors also meet the road master – the owner, builder, and shaper of both roads and the environment.
The key stages of a human life are always connected to roads. Our life journey begins with a drive from the maternity hospital to our childhood home and ends with the road to the cemetery and beyond. We pause to reflect on what the future may bring and what kinds of roads and living environments we leave behind as a legacy for future travellers.
Last updated: 28.01.2026
