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36: 220:, birds, amphibians and fish. Indoors, a marsh appears to flow into a real pond that laps at the outside of the building, and the calls of live owls and otters mix with the splashing cascade of a trout-filled indoor stream. High definition films in a wide-screen theater explore the region and showcase fascinating reports from field scientists researching everything from moose to loons to alpine summits. 164: 203:
primary indoor exhibit areas, The Pataki Hall of the Adirondacks contains The Living River Trail that circles the hall with live animal exhibits and a waterfall with the center's live otters. There are approximately 50 species of live animals at the center, many of them in habitats in this hall. The Big Wolf Great Hall contains a
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The center mixes up the indoors and outdoors on a trail-filled 115-acre (470,000 m) campus. The center opened Wild Walk in 2015, a thousand feet of bridges and platforms that rise up and eventually over the forest on the center's campus. In addition to the outdoor experiences there are five
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The center plays a role in a range of Adirondack projects, sponsoring a community maple sugar operation, sponsoring an annual youth summit that brings college and high school students together to research climate impacts and develop campus action plans. It has partnered in this effort with the
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and the glacial ice wall and is the site for the center's live animal encounters. The Naturalist Cabinet contains hands-on exhibits and collections. Other exhibit areas include the Flammer Panoramas Theater where films are screened, and Planet Adirondacks, an installation of the
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The center also includes outdoor exhibits that take visitors into the ecosystems that surround the center. There are canoe trips available on the river that runs through its campus. Daily guided trail walks are also offered. The walks are on provided snow shoes in the winter.
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with shows focusing on the relationship between the Adirondacks and the rest of the Earth. The center features live exhibits and live animals, including
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The building and the exhibits were designed by The Office of Charles P. Reay with Fish Partners and the
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museum in New York. It earned a silver LEED award from the
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Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC), and
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Exterior of main museum building viewed from Rainbow Bridge
Tupper Lake, New York
Coordinates
44°13′11″N 74°26′19″W / 44.219709°N 74.438543°W / 44.219709; -74.438543
Science museum
www.wildcenter.org


natural history
Tupper Lake, New York
New York
Adirondack Park
lean-to
NOAA
Science on a Sphere
river otters
National Medal
LEED
U.S. Green Building Council
Heureka
St. Louis
HOK
Saratoga Springs
Adirondack Museum
"The History of The Wild Center"
"Wild Walk coming to nature museum in New York's Adirondack Park - LA Times"


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