The Wild Center

The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks main building viewed from Rainbow Bridge

The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks logo

Sign at main entrance to museum campus

The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks (nicknamed and marketed as The Wild Center) is a natural history museum that opened July 4, 2006 in New York state's Adirondack Park. The museum was 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 features live exhibits and live animals, including river otters, birds, amphibians and fish. There’s an indoor waterfall and river, towering glacial ice wall, high-definition films, and wide-screen theater on 31-acre (130,000 m²) trail-filled campus. The new museum mixes up the indoors and outdoors. There are waterfalls inside, and exhibit labels in the woods outside. 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 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.

See also

• Adirondack Museum

External links

• Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks
• Metacosm Design Labs, "Swamp Music" Exhibits Designer
• Inside this Museum, The Great Outdoors, Christian Science Monitor
• Adirondacks Under Glass, The New York Times
• Office of the Governor. State of New York. "Governor Celebrates Grand Opening of Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks."
• Where the Wild Things Are, Times Union, Albany, New York
• Montreal Gazette Article