FARMINGTON – A mobile museum of forest heritage and the changing relationships between people and the land across northern Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York is coming to town.

Franklin County commissioners approved the request of Bruce Hazard, director of Mountain Counties Heritage Inc., to use the county’s employee parking lot on Church Street to park the mobile museum on May 30 and 31, and June 1 and 2.

The alternative of using the Anson Street lot was discussed and a decision will be made at a later meeting.

“It’s a really fun and interesting exhibit,” Hazard said.

The exhibit housed in a 53-foot semi-trailer is called “Ways of the Woods: People and the Land in the Northern Forest.” It began touring last summer and visited Bethel, Mexico and Portland.

School children will be invited to tour the museum on a couple of the days with it open to the public on Saturday, Hazard said.

The traveling museum is a multi-state program of the Northern Forest Center of New Hampshire, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The center was founded in 1997 has been working on a regional economic development strategy, Hazard said.

The interior space of the truck has been decked out with photographs, displays and interactive elements.

It includes “Rings of Time,” a combination of photos and film with traditional music and spoken words, all projected onto the cross-section of a giant white pine tree several feet in diameter, with an overview of the museum states.

It also has flat-screen video stations that display profiles of people who live, work and play in the northern forest, and exhibit cases display items handmade in the region using native forest products.

Once the truck is parked, a canopy extends from its exterior to create a sheltered space for kiosks exploring themes in northern forest history, including industry, adventure, conservation and recreation.

Exhibits include hands-on fun for school-aged children, logger’s spiked boots, vintage ski boots and 3,000-year-old stone tools.