The Šindelka exhibition is located in Harrachov, in a granite building historical value. The name of the exhibition comes from the word “šindele”, which means shingles, i.e. wedge-shaped roofing elements that were manufactured from the beginning of the 19th century until 1934. The ground floor of the building features a forestry exhibition. The process of shaping the forest is presented here – from planting, through the transport of trunks for further processing, to the next renewal of the forest and its care.

The first floor of the building houses an exhibition devoted to hunting, from its beginnings to the present day. Here you can see various game species and kinds of weapons, get acquainted with traditions related to hunting, as well as hunting motifs in art and in everyday life.

Working in the forest was how mountain population most commonly earned their living. Lumberjacks from the Alpine countries were invited to the royal forests in the central and eastern Karkonosze Mountains. They brought with them technical and technological innovations: horned sleighs for transporting wood, snowshoes, special skids carrying wood from the mountain slopes to the stream banks, and sluices regulating the water level. A system of channels and special grates – landing nets was used to capture the floated wood. In the 19th century, timber floatation was almost completely abandoned. This was due to the ever-expanding network of good forest roads. Forestry is one of the few traditional fields of economy that have been developing in the Karkonosze until today.