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The Wild Center/Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks
The Wild Center/Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks
45 Museum Drive
Tupper Lake, NY 12986
USA
The Wild Center opened on July 4, 2006 in the heart of the 6 million acre Adirondack Park in upstate New York. The facility has 70 species and more than 600 individual animals native to the park; fish, frogs, turtles, snakes, raptors, ravens and otters. There's more than 40,000 gallons of water in 50 vivariums/aquariums. There are daily interpretive walks with one of our naturalists to a marsh/oxbow of the Raquette River. The museum is on a 31 acre campus and is about 40,000 square feet.
The museum achieved Silver LEED certification in February and was recently the site for a major climate change conference. There is a high-definition wide-screen theater with screenings of a great series of panoramic photographs of the Adirondacks taken by photographer Carl Heilman called "Wild Adirondacks" A movie on climate change narrated by Sigouney Weaver - "A Matter of Degrees" premiered at the museum on July 4 2008 and will be shown daily. The Wild Center was the first facility in the Adirondacks to achieve LEED certification and the first Museum in New York to achieve this "green" badge.
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