Adirondack Mountain High
A TOUR OF the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y., begins with a supersized-screen video of a young woman paddling across a crystalline lake at dawn; an older man bundled up against the winter cold as he photographs snow-mantled peaks; and parents with kids romping through woods and farm clearings on a bright summer day.
The scenes are so enticing that I’m left to wonder: What am I doing indoors?
It’s a question that the museum—formally known as Adirondack Experience, the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake—constantly strives to answer, thus far with a good deal more success than many other regional museums.
Adirondack Experience starts off with enviable advantages. Few regional museums can match its
