Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks

Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks

Coordinates: 44°13′11″N 74°26′19″W / 44.219709°N 74.438543°W / 44.219709; -74.438543

The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks/The Wild Center
Exterior of main museum building viewed from Rainbow Bridge
Main museum building viewed from Rainbow Bridge
Established 2006
Location Tupper Lake, New York
Type Science museum
Website www.wildcenter.org
Museum logo
Sign at main entrance to museum campus

The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks (The Wild Center) is a natural history museum that opened July 4, 2006 in New York state's Adirondack Park. The museum and the exhibits were designed by The Office of Charles P. Reay with the St. Louis architectural firm HOK. The museum occupies a 31-acre (130,000 m2) site in the town of Tupper Lake, New York, the approximate geographic center of the six million acre (24,000 km²) Adirondack Park.

The museum mixes up the indoors and outdoors on a trail-filled campus. There is a waterfall and a towering glacial ice wall inside, and exhibit labels in the woods outside. The museum features live exhibits and live animals, including river otters, birds, amphibians and fish. Indoors, a marsh appears to flow into a real pond that laps at the outside of the building, and the calls of live owls and otters mix with the splashing cascade of a trout-filled indoor stream. High definition films in a wide-screen theater explore the region and showcase fascinating reports from field scientists researching everything from moose to loons to alpine summits.

This green museum has earned LEED silver from the U.S. Green Building Council and is the first LEED certified museum in the State of New York.[1]

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