Adirondack Museum - Collections

Collections

The museum collection includes a number of large objects, including a Pullman railroad car, several guide boats and an Idem class racing sailboat, a steam locomotive, a one-room schoolhouse, a complete blacksmith shop, the rustic "Sunset Cottage", and the Log Hotel, original to the museum's site, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Other material includes:

• A fine art collection that contains over 2500 works including oil and watercolor paintings, prints, and artists' sketchbooks.
• The second largest collection of inland wooden watercraft in the United States.
• More than 70,000 historic photographs including the work of Seneca Ray Stoddard, Alfred Stieglitz, and Eliot Porter.
• The largest public collection of rustic furniture in North America. The museum owns many pieces created by Joe Bryere, a local woodworking artist.
• The Museum's library claims the most comprehensive repository of books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps and government documents related to the Adirondack region.

• The engine that started the museum: The Marion River Carry Railroad, at 1,320 yards (1,210 m), the shortest standard-gauge railroad line in the US

• The Log Hotel, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

• This Guide boat was built on-site as a demonstration

• Platform Tent

• Antique Strip-built Canoes

• Dog Sled

• Buck Lake Club, one of several buildings moved on site

• Adirondack Guides, one of thousands of photographs in the museum's collection