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from the 1932 and 1980 Olympic venues in Lake Placid to the historic Saratoga
Springs Racetrack, and the famous Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Adirondack
Museums
The history of the Adirondacks has been shaped and influenced
by many powerful forces. Logging, mining, farming, tourism and even medicine have
all played a major role in the development of the region. In the early 1800's,
towns like St. Regis, Paul Smiths and Old Forge sprang up taking advantage of
the huge timber resources and iron ore deposits. In the central Adirondacks, pioneers
cleared the large tracts of land for farming creating the first settlements. And
beginning in the late nineteenth century, the Adirondacks became a popular destination
for the rich and famous. Known as the "Gilded Age", this period is famous for
the construction of huge rustic compounds called Great Camps. We invite you to
learn more about the history of the Adirondacks by visiting the many museums and
historic sites.
Popular
Adirondack Museums
Tupper
Lake:
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Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks
THE WILD CENTER
518-359-7800
866-765-7800 Tupper Lake
The Wild Center is a brand new museum where the wild
world of the Adirondacks opens before your eyes. Take a tour, dive into our living
exhibits, and find out how you can join for the coming year. Now you can be among
the first to enjoy this engaging new center of an amazing world.
The indoor
Hall of the Adirondacks houses the Living River Trail and its live exhibits, including
the otters at Otter Falls. The trail takes you on a journey from the marsh, past
a deep lake, past a bog and forests up a river filled with trout to the summit
of an alpine peak where you can touch a cloud. Along the way there’s a wealth
of information about the nature of the wild Adirondacks. You
can sit down in the Find Out Forest, filled with high definition media screens
where you choose where to go and what to watch. You can journey up to the top
of the mountains with a cloud catcher or track an immigrant moose or raft down
the Hudson Gorges. There’s a world of ideas here that you can explore in
the company of engaging scientists. Travel
from the hall of the Adirondacks into the Big Wolf Great Hall to see the Glacial
Ice Wall and its moving story of the formation of the modern Adirondacks. Here
you can see daily Animal Encounters and meet owls and other members of the Wild
Center’s living collection. You
can also relax in the Naturalists Cabinet with its collections and bird viewing
area.
In 2009 The Wild Center features Mother of Invention starting July
4. This theme that will be featured inside and out, will look at how people are
learning to design and invent using serious ideas from nature that could change
how we think about technology. Everything from energy to homes and medicine will
be effected by these exciting new abilities to look deeply into nature as an invention
genius.
The Panoramas widescreen theater features 2008 Banff Mountain
FIlm Festival finalist A Matter of Degrees. It that will take you back to the
age of mastadons and ice to see how much the world is impacted by changes in climate,
and the importance of a few degrees of change.
Blue
Mountain Lake:
 Adirondack
Museum
Route 30, Blue Mountain Lake, NY 12812
(518)352-7311
A complete
museum complex with an emphasis on the Adirondack mountains. Exhibits are both
indoors and outdoors. The complex is located on the slopes of Blue Mountain, overlooking
Blue Mountain Lake. Open Memorial Day through Columbus Day, 9:30AM-5:30PM. Handicap
accessible. Admission fee.
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for 2008 cal of events
New at the Adirondack Museum in 2008
Woods
and Waters: Outdoor Recreation in the Adirondacks
Features new research by
noted environmental and Adirondack historian Phil Terrie to guide visitors through
the history of outdoor recreation in the Adirondacks. Adirondack
Voices
An interactive computer and web-based activity. Voices will be accessible
in Woods and Waters, or on the museum web site, www.adirondackmuseum.org. Log
on and join a conversation about the past, present, and future of the Adirondack
Park. Rustic Tomorrow
Six
modernist and post modernist architects or designers have been paired with prominent
Adirondack rustic furniture makers. The results of these collaborations are one-of-a-kind
pieces, distinctly futuristic in design, but constructed with traditional time-honored
techniques. Mildred Hooker's
Tent Platform
Visitors can experience camping in an 1880s platform tent complete
with camp accessories and a photo album featuring Victorian Americans enjoying
the Adirondack outdoors in grand style. Mrs.
Merwin's Kitchen Garden
Visitors can explore the types of vegetables that Frances
Merwin, wife of Blue Mountain House owner Miles Tyler Merwin, grew in her garden
to feed her family and guests a century ago. The garden will feature heirloom
varieties of vegetables that were once common in Adirondack gardens. Whimsy
and Play Rustic Tot Lot
Opening in July-- is a play area designed just for
toddlers and pre-school age children. Pint-size visitors can romp and play on
a wooden rocker, scamper up and down a rustic bridge, or swing from timbers rustically
decorated with twigs, bark, and pinecones. Carved animals will be part of the
fun, ready for giggles, hugs, and photo opportunities. In
addition, a child-sized log cabin set in the apple orchard near the schoolhouse
will provide children (and their elders) with an opportunity to see cabin being
constructed log-by-log. This will be an on-going demonstration during the summer,
offering visitors the opportunity to talk to the builder as the cabin arises.
In 2009 the fully furnished cabin will open to families for imaginative play.
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Lake
Placid:
John Browns Farm State Historic Site John Brown Road
Lake
Placid, NY 12946
518-523-3900
Web
Site: http://www.nysparks.com
Tour
the last home and burial site of the famed abolitionist. Open year-round, Wednesday
through Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday 1-5pm.Fee:
$2.00 Adults, $1.00 12years and under, Buses $50.
Olympic
Center and 1932 & 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum
2634 Main Street
Lake Placid, NY 12946
518-523-1655 800-462-6236 .
Lake
Placid North Elba Historical Society Museum
Averyville Road, Lake Placid,
NY 12946
(518)523-1608
Memorabilia from 1932 Olympics and other sporting
equipment. Exhibits housed in former NY Central Railroad terminal. Open Jun-Sep,
Tu-Su 1-5PM. Free admission
Tupper
Lake
Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks
518-359-7800
866-765-7800 Tupper Lake
This is a brand new museum where the wild world of
the Adirondacks opens right before your eyes. Take a tour, check out our living
exhibits, and find out how you can join for the opening year. Beginning July Fourth
2006, you can start enjoying this engaging new center of an amazing world.
Goff-Nelson
Memorial Library
41 Lake Street, Tupper Lake, NY 12986
(518)359-9421
Art exhibits, crafts and quilt shows. Open year round, Mon-Thurs 10AM-5:30PM,
7-9PM, Fri 10AM-5:30PM (closed holidays). Free admission.
Paul
Smiths & Newcomb
Visitor
Interpretive Centers in
Paul Smiths and Newcomb
 The
New York State Adirondack Park Agency operates the Visitor Interpretive Centers
in Paul Smiths and Newcomb.Open year-round,
the facilities serve the 6 million-acre Park as
environmental education and traveler orientation centers.
Interpretive Trails
Both
facilities offer miles of scenic, surfaced trails that feature signage explaining
the local ecology. Winter in
Paul Smiths sees the system adapted for cross-country skiing, while the Newcomb
Center loans snowshoes to winter
visitors who wish to explore trails there. Exhibits
Indoor
exhibits on natural history are complemented by regular showings of
multi-image presentations on the park. Youngsters will find "touch tables,"
games and puzzles to spark their
interest in the regions's animals, insects and plants.
Bolton
Landing:
Bolton
Historical Society Museum
Lake Shore Drive, Route 9N, Bolton Landing, NY
12814
(518)644-9960
Local artifacts, photographs and antiques. Open Jul-Aug,
M-Sa noon-5PM, M-F 7-9PM. Handicap accessible. Free admission.
Chazy: Alice
T. Miner Colonial Collection
Route 9, Chazy, NY
(518)846-7336
Exhibits
include Early American artifacts. Museum is housed in period building (circa 1824).
Open Tuesday - Saturday, 10AM - 4PM). Free admission.
Croghan:
American
Maple Museum
Main Street, Croghan, NY 13327
(315)346-1107 (800)724-1242
Museum includes the Maple Hall of Fame. Open June through Columbus Day; Mon,Fri,Sat
11AM-4PM (Additional hours of operation during tourist season: Jul&Aug, Mon-Sat
11AM-4PM. Admission fee.
Crown
Point:
Penfield
Museum
Route 74, Crown Point, NY 12928
(518)597-3804
Local history
and iron industry. Open mid-May through mid-Oct, daily 9AM-4PM. Free admission.
Elizabethtown:
Adirondack
Center Museum
Route 9, Elizabethtown, NY 12932
(518)873-6466
Exhibits
include displays on early settlement of region. Open mid-May through mid-October,
Mon-Sat 9:00AM-5:00PM, Sun 1:00PM-5:00PM. Handicap accessible. Admission fee.
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Glens
Falls:
Chapman
Historical Museum
348 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801
(518)793-2826
(518)793-2831(fax)
ContactUs@ChapmanMuseum.org
Exhibits on southern Adirondack
area, featuring Seneca Ray Stoddard photographs. Museum located in restored Victorian
home. Gift shop. Open year round, Tuesday through Saturday, noon - 5:00PM (closed
holidays). Handicap accessible.
The
Hyde Collection Art Museum
161 Warren Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801
(518)792-1761
A world-class permanent collection that spans the history of Western art.
An extraordinary variety of works by masters such as da Vinci, Rubens, Rembrandt,
Cézanne, Renoir, van Gogh, Picasso, Whistler, Eakins and Homer cover the
walls of historic Hyde House, a 1912 Renaissance-style villa. In addition, the
Museum presents year round temporary exhibitions in three gallery spaces and a
Museum Shop. Hours: Tues. - Saturday: 10 am - 5 pm; Thurs. til 7 pm. Sunday noon
- 5 pm
Jay:
Youngs
Studio & Gallery
Route 86 in Jay NY
RR 1 Box 198, Jay, NY 12941
(800)842-1072
Our Gallery represents over 70 local and regional artisans as well as showcasing
the work of the owners, Sue and Terrance Young. Sue is a well know potter and
sculptor and Terrance is an award winning artist in oil, pencil and original hand
pulled etchings of the Adirondack Region. Open June - Dec Open Daily 10 - 5 /
Jan - May Open Tues - Sat 10-5,
Keene
Valley:
John
Hudson's Adirondack Studio
HCR1, Box 193, Keene Valley, NY 12943
(518)576-2019
jhudson@artlover.com
Fine art and craft studio and gallery. Features original
oil paintings by Adirondack Artist John Hudson, Crafts by Shirley Hudson., as
well as a line of Limited Edition signed prints. Open year round, by appointment,
or watch for our outdoor gallery listings.
Lyons
Falls:
Lewis
County Historical Society/Gould Mansion
High Street, Lyons Falls, NY 13368
(315)348-8089
Exhibits featuring local (Lewis County) artifacts. Museum housed in Romanesque
mansion (circa 1902). Open June through mid-October, Tue-Sat 10:00AM - 4PM (closed
holidays).
Malone:
Franklin
County Historical and Museum Society
51 Milwaukee St., Malone, NY 12953
(518)483-2750
Exhibit includes antique maps, country store, and furniture. Open Jun-Labor
Day, Tu-Sa 1-5PM; rest of year Sa 1-4PM. Handicap accessible. Donation requested.
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Old
Forge:
Arts
Center
Route 28, Old Forge, NY 13420
(315)369-6411
A complete art
center, featuring exhibits, workshops, lectures, etc. Open year round, daily 10:00AM
- 4:00PM (closed holidays). Admission fee.
Forest
Industries Exhibit Hall
Route 28, Old Forge, NY 13420
(315)369-3078
Exhibits of forest and wildlife management. Open Memorial Day through Oct,
MWSa 10AM-5PM, Su noon-5PM (Sept-Oct weekends only). Handicap accessible. Free
admission.
Webb Historical
Association
Off Route 28
Crosby Boulevard, Old Forge, NY 13420
(315)369-3838
Artifacts of early Adirondacks. Open May-Sep, TuWF 10AM-4PM, Oct-Apr 1-4PM.
Free admission.
Saranac
Lake:
Charles
Dickert Memorial Collection
100 Main Street, Saranac Lake, NY
(518)891-4190
pineconio@yahoo.com
Collection of works by master Taxidermist Charles Dickert,
who practiced his craft in Saranac Lake in the early 1900's. His talent for mounting
game in lifelike poses makes these animals seem to be alive today. The Museum
is located in the Saranac Lake Free Library. Open July 4 through Labor Day, Monday
through Friday 10am - 4 pm.
Ticonderoga:
Hancock
House
Moses Circle, Ticonderoga, NY 12883
(518)585-7868
Replica
of the Hancock house in Boston, Massachusetts. Museum includes research library.
Open year round, Wed-Sat 10:00AM - 4:00PM; additional tourist season hours July
through mid-October, Mon-Sat 10:00AM - 4:00PM. Handicap accessible. Free admission.
Ticonderoga Heritage
Museum
Montcalm Street, Ticonderoga, NY 12883
(518)585-2696
Gallery
of local artists. Children's workshops. Open Jun 29-Labor Day 10AM-4PM (Memorial
Day - Columbus Day weekends only). Handicap accessible. Donation requested.
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