EXHIBITS

The average visitor spends about three hours at the Museum. There are walking trails, naturalist guides, movies, live exhibits including hundreds of live animals, live otters, and a wealth of information about the natural world and about this very special land called the Adirondacks. The staff is here ready to let you explore this fascinating world. (You can take a sneak tour of the new Otter facilty on our Facebook page.)

In 2010 The Wild Center features Return of the Wild. This theme is featured inside and out and looks at how wild things are coming back to the Adirondacks. Moose now appear near the center, osprey have dipped down to Greenleaf Pond for food, and wolf DNA seems to be maklng a comeback. Return of the Wild opened this July.  Return of the Wild includes three new films screened daily in the Flammer Theater.

The Panoramas widescreen theater features  a series of daily films including Banff Mountain Film Festival finalist A Matter of Degrees. This WIld Center production 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. The outdoor New Path is also open. It will help anyone thinking about building see how The Wild Center's green building ideas work.

The Wild Center has exhibits indoors and out. The Museum’s collection is not stored in vaults; it spreads across all six million acres of the Adirondacks. The Wild Center is a place to explore that living breathing collection.