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Centennial Site
The Adirondack Museum
P.O. Box 99
Blue Mountain Lake, NY 12812-0099
Phone: (518) 352-7311
Fax: (518) 352-7653The Adirondack Museum is known nationwide for its exhibits and collections that reflect two centuries of human endeavor in one of the last wilderness areas in the United States.
On 32 acres overlooking Blue Mountain Lake, the museum's setting is inseparable from the natural beauty surrounding it. Its 22 indoor and outdoor exhibits tell of the people who have inhabited and visited this land of forests, lakes and mountains since the early 1800s.
Exhibits on logging, mining, boating, overland transportation, hunting and camping show how people worked, traveled and played. Nineteenth-century landscape paintings reveal how artists responded to the Adirondacks.
One of the finest collections of freshwater craft in America, including 68 guide boats, is housed at the Adirondack Museum. Carriages, a private parlor car, a schoolhouse, a rustic cottage, rustic furniture, more than 66,000 historic photographs and an extensive library all document Adirondack history and culture. Year-round programs for students and adults, books, and publications interpret and expand the museum's offerings.
Visitors allow time between exhibits to enjoy the beauty of the museum's large campus. "If you have never seen the complex, described by the New York Times as 'the best museum of its kind in the world,' you're in for a surprise. Perched on the side of Blue Mountain and overlooking the island-studded lake, is a major outdoor museum that is user-friendly, scholarly, beautiful, amusing and superlative in every way." – Elizabeth Folwell, The Adirondack Book, 1996.