The museum was listed as “A top insider spot for New York” in Travelocity’s Local Secrets, Big Finds, 2007 edition.

The Adirondack Museum is open daily through October 19, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Exceptions to the schedule are Friday, September 5 and Friday, September 19 when the museum will be closed to prepare for special events.

A visitor favorite has had a facelift! Woods and Waters: Outdoor Recreation in the Adirondacks will feature new research by noted environmental and Adirondack historian Phil Terrie to guide visitors through the history of outdoor recreation in the Adirondacks. Historic and contemporary photographs will provide a lively view of Adirondack recreation with a focus on people in a wild setting.

Adirondack Voices, an interactive computer and web-based activity, will be introduced in May. Voices will be accessible in Woods and Waters, or on the museum web site, www.adirondackmuseum.org . Log on and join a conversation about the past, present, and future of the Adirondack Park.

The museum will also introduce a very special exhibit this season called Rustic Tomorrow. Six modernist and post modernist architects or designers have been paired with prominent Adirondack rustic furniture makers. The results of these collaborations are one-of-a-kind pieces, distinctly futuristic in design, but constructed with traditional time-honored techniques.

Rustic Tomorrow will be on exhibit at the Adirondack Museum from May 23 through October 19, 2008. The exhibition will travel to the Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, N.Y. for a November 7 through December 13, 2008 showing, and to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute in Utica, N.Y. from February 14 to April 19, 2009.

The Adirondack Museum will introduce a number of exciting new elements this season. Highlights include: “Mildred Hooker’s Tent Platform” where visitors can experience camping in an 1880s platform tent complete with camp accessories and a photo album featuring Victorian Americans enjoying the Adirondack outdoors in grand style.

At “Mrs. Merwin’s Kitchen Garden” visitors can explore the types of vegetables that Frances Merwin, wife of Blue Mountain House owner Miles Tyler Merwin, grew in her garden to feed her family and guests a century ago. The garden will feature heirloom varieties of vegetables that were once common in Adirondack gardens.

In addition, a child-sized log cabin set in the apple orchard near the schoolhouse will provide children (and their elders) with an opportunity to see cabin being constructed log-by-log. This will be an on-going demonstration during the summer, offering visitors the opportunity to talk to the builder as the cabin arises. In 2009 the fully furnished cabin will open to families for imaginative play. -- www.adkmuseum.org