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 fresh water craft in America, including sixty-eight guideboats, is housed at the Adirondack Museum. Carriages, a private parlor car, a schoolhouse, a rustic cottage, rustic furniture, over 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. This exhibit highlights the centennial of Teddy Roosevelt's ride to the Presidency in 1901. It examines the role the Adirondacks had in Roosevelt's lifelong love of natural history and the outdoor life. Included is an overview of his boyhood visits to the region in the 1870s, his later visits as New York State governor and as United States Vice President, and his place in the American conservation movement. The Adirondack Museum.