The Wild Centre

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The Wild Centre

by rufusni

Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

March 21, 2008

The Wild Center or the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks looks at the natural history of the region. Its a very hands on type of museum that is really designed to appeal to children. Inside the museum building are various displays, with ...Read more The Wild Center or the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks looks at the natural history of the region. Its a very hands on type of museum that is really designed to appeal to children. Inside the museum building are various displays, with fish, otters and other animals making up some of the animals that are kept each being part of a display to explain their significance in a part of the habitat of the mountain region. The displays consider marshes, deep lakes and mountain peaks and the habitats that each of these are. At regular points during the day there are scheduled interactive talks about some of the displays - we heard one about how the museum cares for the otters that they have in capitivity and how they try to keep their lives interesting with different feeding methods and playtoys. Part of the museum is more like a science lab with microscopes and so on to encourage kids to look at insects and things more closely.

There is also a cinema screen which shows short films about the region - we ended up watching two - one simply of photography of the region set to music,which was simply breathtaking and the other was a film of a duck mother and her ducklings which the kids I was with thought was terrible cute. Quite often they have special events and 'lectures' - they had a lady in talking about birds of prey when I was in, and she is involved in the rescue of injured birds of prey - but she brought with her several birds that were unable to be released back into the wild - the talk took about 30 minutes but it was quite interesting.

Outside are a series of walks, with that introduce you to some of the habitats and creatures that live in them - we did see lots of waterbirds and other little animals running around the place. There are also guided walks around the museums grounds which give further more detailed descriptions. The museum seems to be expanding the number of possiblities of exhibits to explore from woodlands and a slow river bend and a tree-top walk. The grounds aren't huge, though the walk down to the riverbend is quite steep in places and may be a struggle for some. To be honest, we didn't see much wildlife down at the river, apart from a solitary duck.

Its not really the sort of place I would have picked to go myself, and its probably only really enjoyable if you have children with you as its really designed with them in mind. We spent about 2 and 1/2 hours here, and that was more than enough time for me, and plenty of time to walk around the exhibits. We did have a quick look around the shop, but we decided that the cafe in the museum was a little pricy and headed into Tupper Lake to get some food. Close

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