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Praised as “the best of its kind in the world” by the
New York Times, the Adirondack Museum tells the stories of how people
lived, worked and played in the Adirondacks – the place where America’s
idea of wilderness was born. Changing exhibits, special
events and a variety of activities make the museum special to all types
of interests. Beautifully landscaped grounds and gardens overlook
a spectacular vista of lakes and mountains.
When did trains come to the region? What was it like
to live in a lumber camp? Who were the boat builders? Who dug for iron
ore? When was there a horse in every barn?
Long-term exhibits at the Adirondack Museum answer these questions and
many more. They introduce visitors to the cultural history of people
who lived in and visited the Adirondacks from the 1800s to the
mid-1900s and explore the impact of the Adirondack landscape on
peoples' lives and minds.
Twenty-two buildings and indoor/outdoor exhibits, on grounds surrounded by native trees and flowers, show how people have lived, moved, worked, and played in the Adirondacks. Ongoing interpretive programs link past with present. Here you’ll find the small wooden boats crucial for work and transportation in a region laced with rivers and lakes; you’ll find buckboards and elegant sleighs, stagecoaches, a Model T Ford, and a mahogany paneled private railroad car fit for the wealthy landowners who built sprawling Adirondack retreats called “Great Camps”. You’ll find exhibits exploring the region’s main industries – logging, mining and tourism. You’ll see a hermit’s camp, a one-room schoolhouse, a cottage decorated entirely with mosaic twigwork, a large collection of innovative rustic work and furniture, and the sleek lines of the indigenous and renowned Adirondack guideboats. Camping in the woods, surveying, hunting, skiing, trapping, and other evidence of human endeavor since the 1800s are all noted in museum exhibits. An exciting new Visitors Center with Museum Store, and the Lake View Café will complete your visit. Average visit is 3-4 hours.
Temporary exhibits generally run for one or two years,
and allow the Adirondack Museum to present a wide range of cultural and
historic topics which supplement its long-term exhibits.
A full listing of the demonstrations, lectures, workshops and special events scheduled for 2003 is available on the museum’s website: www.adirondackmuseum.org.
The Temporary exhibits are:
“A Paradise for Boys and
Girls: Children’s Camps in the Adirondacks”
This exhibit explores the nature of Adirondack children’s camping and
how it has changed over time. The exhibit focuses particularly on
what distinguishes children’s camps in the Adirondacks from camps
elsewhere, the impact of camps on the region, how the elements of
children’s camps have been important in youth development and how those
elements have changed. Over 270 children’s camps have been active
in the Adirondacks since the late 1800s when the children’s camps
movement began, with at least 70 of these camps still in
operation. Artifacts collected from current and defunct camps,
historic photos, and oral histories will supplement the information
presented.
“Places of the Spirit:
Photographs of Sacred Spaces in the Adirondacks”
This is an exhibition of the work of four photographers commissioned by
the Lake Placid Institute for the Arts and Humanities during the summer
of 2001 to visually respond to sacred sites – churches, synagogues,
burial grounds and other places of spirituality – within the Adirondack
region. In the Adirondacks as elsewhere, sacred objects and
phenomena are set off from ordinary, everyday life. The
architecture and furnishings of churches and synagogues including the
materials used to adorn and embellish inside and outside, like the
boundary markers of cemeteries, are signifiers for how a particular
community views and conducts its daily life and how it wishes to leave
that life “behind.” This exhibition of over 40 photographs
records the past, beauty and loss from the perspectives of
architecture, history and photographic representation to stimulate
reflection, visual awareness, and perhaps even action.
“Summering in the Adirondacks:
The Artist’s Views”
This special thematic exhibit drawn from the painting, print, and
recreation collections will convey the widespread appeal, historically
and aesthetically, of the Adirondacks as a summer place. This
exhibit will include images and artifacts of summer pastimes – boating,
fishing, camping; places to go and places to stay – Ausable Chasm, High
Falls Gorge, the High peaks, hotels, lakes; and beautiful views
including masterworks from the museum’s renowned painting collection.
“Living With
Wilderness”
This exhibit introduces the visitor to highlights of Adirondack history
that are fully developed in the permanent exhibits. The visitor
will learn about events and people who lived and worked in the region
and how their activities changed the wilderness. The museum’s
much loved photobelt is featured in the exhibit. The continuous
loop of images will once again provide windows into past daily life in
the Adirondacks and show the faces of people who lived, worked, and
played in the wilderness.
Open seven days a week (except the day before the
Juried Rustic Furniture Fair Show) from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Season runs from Memorial Day weekend, to mid October. We are then open the last 2 weekends in October.
Admission is $15 for adults age 13 +, and $8 for youth (6-12 yrs), children 5 and under are free. Admission goes for 2 consecutive days. Group rates are available for groups of 15 or more.
The Adirondack Museum is located on
Route 30 at Blue Mountain Lake – two hours from Albany, Utica,
Plattsburgh,or Watertown. 75 minutes from Lake George or Lake
Placid.
John Collins, Director
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