Cultural & Museums

Dedicated to quality theatre; producing well written shows not normally staged by community or regional theatres. WrightStage Productions offers special performances for school groups; teaching packets and talk-back sessions with cast members.

Season: July-August
Presents three Broadway musicals in a four-week time frame. Performed by students ages eleven to eighteen participating in all aspects of musical theatre.

Season: YR
Exhibitions by members of North Country Arts Center. The Center promotes Arts in the area, and includes many talented and well-known artists and artisans. A stop on seasonal Third Thursday Glens Falls Art Walk.

Price: Free

Season: YR
Independent glassware, Phan-Art, local and regional artists and artisans.

Price: Free

Season: 3rd Thu, May-Oct; YR by appt
Changing exhibits of over 20 local artists and artisans. Also a stop on seasonal Third Thursday Glens Falls Art Walk.

Price: Free

Three productions annually, Spring, Summer and Fall cast with students in grades 4-12 as well as ACT alumni performing in the Summer production.

Season: YR
The Adirondack Folk School is the only school of its kind in the country dedicated to teaching arts, crafts, culture and traditions of the Adirondacks through hands-on experiences. Artisan exhibits, concerts by Adirondack storytellers and musicians, lectures, programs.

Price: Free/$

"A Yuletide Gathering", is a unique family-oriented local holiday tradition performed each December.

Takes you off main transportation routes and onto roads with special intrinsic qualities that create exceptional driving experiences, including the Central Adirondack Trail. Free.

A professional group dedicated to producing world-class theatre in upstate NY. Since 2008, the Company has performed up and down the eastern seaboard. We are proud to call Schroon Lake and the Adirondack region home. ADK Shakes strips theatre down to its most essential elements: bare boards and a passion-our method is Shakespeare IN THE RAW-intense, thrilling, challenging.

Season: June-July
Professional Summer Theatre committed to producing new and contemporary works; musicals from Broadway to Off-Broadway; one-person and world premiers.

Performances by 70-voice chorus, piano, and guests each May and December.

Download a guide to Adirondack historic sites, museums and events.

Price: Free

Season: May-Oct
Living history along the Military Road an important route in early America during the French and Indian War as well as the Revolutionary War. It ran from Fort Edward on the Hudson River to Fort William Henry in Lake George. Fully supported rides.

Price: $; Reservations

Season: YR
Explore the Warrensburgh Historical District, over 80 historic properties. Free brochure available from Warrensburgh Beautification Committee.

Price: Free

Season: YR
Exhibitions by members of North Country Arts Center and features multi-media works by local and regional artists and artisans.

Price: Free

Season: YR
The gallery offers exhibits by well-known regional and local artist's works of diverse art in a variety of mediums. New exhibitions every 4 to 6 weeks.

Price: Free

Season: May-Oct
A rich collection of artifacts covering 200 years of town history. Exhibits on local hotels, ice harvesting, commercial and recreational boating, town development, famous residents and more.

Price: Free

Community theatre group dedicated to producing professional level musical theatre productions for the Adirondack community to experience.

Season: YR
Restored Victorian home of prominent Glens Falls merchant, Zopher DeLong. Changing exhibits of southeastern Adirondacks, guided tours of the home furnished as it would have been a century ago. Displays of images by photographer Seneca Ray Stoddard from its collection of several thousand images on a rotating basis. Research archive and museum shop.

Price: Donation

Season: YR
300 seat capacity theater featuring dance, theatre performances, musicals, and film events.

Season: YR
History of Hague, the once booming town of Graphite and the mining operation. Gallery and museum featuring local Adirondack artists. Free.

Price: Free

Season: May-Oct
Cooper’s Cave is the site of the fictional hiding place made famous in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Last of the Mohicans. Nestled under the Cooper’s Cave Bridge, which connects the Village of South Glens Falls and the City of Glens Falls, a viewing platform with interpretive information has been constructed for visitors to view the site and learn about James Fenimore Cooper and the Mohican Tribe’s legacy in this region. Free.

Price: Free

The Courthouse Gallery, located at Old County Court House in Lake George. Rotating exhibits of local, regional and national artists. Lake George Arts Project hosts Lake George Jazz Weekend, summer concerts at Shepard Park and more.

Price: Free

Season: July-August
The Institute monitors the "health" of Lake George water. Summer lecture series.

Chamber music concerts in spring and fall featuring guest artists performed in historic Hyde House.

Season: July-Aug by appointment
Museum of local and Dean family history, artifacts, photos.

Price: Free

Season: YR
Located in the historic Troy Shirt Factory Building at Cooper & Lawrence Streets, the gallery offers fine arts by local and regional artisans with rotating exhibits. Free.

Price: Free

Season: May-Oct
Historical walking tours offered in various locations including Lake George by period attired guides. Designed to meet your interests, several itineraries are available. Reservations.

Price: $

Beginning of historic towpath trail and waterway at Feeder Dam, Richardson St and Haviland Ave. Listed on New York State and National Register of Historic Places, National Recreation Trail system. Walk, bike, paddle; cross-country skiing, snowshoe.

Communities along the Hudson River, upstream from Glens Falls and west of Lake George, have joined together to celebrate their shared history along the earliest route into the heart of the Adirondack wilderness. From the Great Falls of the Hudson, upriver to the dramatic Hudson River Gorge, the stream tumbles over falls and rapids, past dramatic cliffs of magnificent marble, then slows to flow easily through ice meadows. Soldiers followed these trails during French and Indian War.

Season: YR
Changing exhibits, concerts, history programs, film presentations.

Price: Free

Restored Colonial fortress 1755-1757 French and Indian War era. Guided and self-guided tour; children can join the King's Army. Live firing demonstrations of musket and cannon, musket ball molding demonstration. Family-friendly Ghost Tours every evening during the summer. Featured on NatGeoTV's "DeCrypters" and SyFy's "Ghost Hunters."

Season: July-Aug, Fri-Sat; by appointment
Displays features the Wayside Inn Hotel register signed by Ulysses S. Grant and Sarah Bernhart, celebrated Adirondack guide Ira Gray. The Adirondack Room, history in & around Lake Luzerne, local commerce, logging industry, early farming, tourism.

Price: Donation

Season: May-Oct
Sit down dinner with show. Dinner, on transit rt, wheelchair access, motorcoaches welcome, wi-fi, access by boat. East Coast premiere for 2013 season. Laura Roth as Streisand, Petula Clark, Judy Garland, and more.

Presents a diverse Season featuring a musical, a play, and a murder mystery dinner theatre. Also each September the Glens Falls Cemetery Tour of Bay Street Cemetery, a joint presentation with Chapman Historical Museum.

Season: YR
A self-guided walking tour between the Chapman Historical Museum and The Hyde Collection following a variety of routes, 26 buildings of architectural and historical interest highlighted. Free maps available at City Hall Clerk, City Historian's office Monday thru Friday, excludes holidays, and the museums listed above.

Price: Free

Nationally recognized professional symphony orchestra, engaging international guest artists.

Season: YR
Exhibits by local and regional artists. Concerts, lectures, and history programs. Wi-Fi. A member of the Southern Adirondack Library System.

Price: Free

Season: Memorial Day - Labor Day
Dedicated to the memory and sacrifices of our nation's heroes. Representation from all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, recruiting posters, battlefield relics. Free.

Price: Free/Donation

Season: YR
Collects and preserves historical artifacts, archival materials and historical documents, education programs, research support in locating and designating historical sites, seasonal theme exhibits.

Price: Free; Donation

Season: YR
Established in 1899 in an 1860's schoolhouse and charted in 1901, the library is home to a collection of historical and rare books on the Adirondacks, and their original Seneca Ray Stoddard photographs. Exhibits and displays by local and regional artists and artisans.

Price: Free

Season: June, Sat only; July-Aug, Tue, Thur, Sat.
Adirondack pioneer home life is presented in a 9-room restored farmhouse filled with local history. Includes collection of antique clothing, furniture, china, quilts and old photographs; Horse-drawn farm equipment, old tools, boats. Free.

Price: Free

Season: Apr-Halloween
Foolish mortals beware! In the House of Frankenstein Wax Museum there are many "monsters." The creatures roaming the halls of this house are not living...yet they are not dead. For as you shall see, they move and talk and sometimes they even SCREAM! Ages 6-12 must be accompanied by an adult.

Season: YR
Historic house and art museum complex combines Adirondack heritage with a distinguished permanent collection of European old and modern masters, American artists, decorative arts, antique furnishings. In 2012 Hyde House, former home of museum founders Charlotte and Louis Hyde celebrated 50 years as a public museum. Changing exhibits, lectures, concerts, museum store. Second Sundays visit for free, exception applies to July and August.

Price: $

Operated by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. This extensive park maintains important open space at the southern end of Lake George and preserves major French & Indian War and Revolutionary War battlesites. Interpretive signs.

Price: Free; $ park

Musicians committed to enrichment of community through performance of classical music with professional guest soloists. Three annual performances.

Concert band with a marching division providing musical programs throughout the summer and holiday seasons. Lake George Community Band Festival, also spring and winter concerts at the Charles R Wood Theater in Glens Falls.

Season: Mid-July-Oct
Professional Equity Dinner Theatre performing contemporary comedies in an intimate and casual setting. 2013 season presents "Moonlight and Magnolias". A delightful comedy drawn from real life events in which legendary Producer David O. Selznick has shut down production of his new epic film "Gone With the Wind" and fired director, George Cukor, because he's unhappy with the first two weeks of shooting. Mature audience, contains adult language. Dinner and luncheon matinee shows, July thru October. Dinner, on transit route, wheelchair access, bus and groups welcome.

Season: May-Oct
19th century jail cells and artifacts in old courthouse, 1756 powder horn, Native American artifacts, muskets, photos. Prospect Mountain history, stately old courtroom, bookstore.

Price: Free

The productions are new American plays and adaptations done in a bare bones style; introducing new American playwrights and directors.

All-American Road. "The Great Northeast Journey" is your ticket to a unique American experience. North America's first inter-connected waterway - the Upper Hudson River/Champlain Canal, Lake George, and Lake Champlain - shaped the nation-building activities of the U.S. and Canada. By bike, foot, boat or car, Lakes to Locks Passage provides access to over 200 miles of this historic watercourse, is used by migratory birds and native peoples, explorers, armies, commercial enterprises and now, diverse recreational activities. Free.

Season: YR
Lapham Art Gallery and Shop featuring changing exhibits of fine arts and crafts created by local and regional artists. LARAC was founded in 1972 by a coalition of arts-minded residents. Its mission is to enrich the quality of life in Warren, Washington, and Northern Saratoga Counties by supporting arts and culture.

Price: Free

Season: June-Aug
Internationally renowned guest artists and members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and New York City Ballet Orchestra with Luzerne Chamber Players, Luzerne Symphony Orchestra. Luzerne Faculty Concerts; Student performances.

Season: YR
A gallery of Adirondack art, paintings and prints of favorite local and Adirondack Mountains scenery, hot air balloons, woodland flowers and more. Free.

Price: Free

Season: YR
Self-guided military history tour. "The Heart of the Hudson-Champlain Corridor", from Glens Falls to Ticonderoga. Includes 17th-19th century military sites, museums, cemeteries, forts and houses in the heart of Revolutionary War area. Free.

Season: Memorial Day - Columbus Day
Featuring works by North Country artists and artisans.

Relive the Birth of a Great Nation. Self-guided tour of some of the most important sites of the French & Indian and Revolutionary Wars. Over 40 historic sites includes authentically restored forts and grand government buildings.

Price: Free

All Trails Lead to New York State. In colonial and revolutionary America, New York State was at the crossroads of the growing nation and history. Self-guided tour highlights over 40 historic sites.

Self-guided tour from Native American perspective of French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars. Highlights Iroquois, Mohican Oneida, Seneca, and others. Learn more of the valiant struggles and invaluable contributions of the Native American people.

Waterways were the natural superhighways of the late 18th century. Relive our legacy, travel and explore. Self-guided tour of these historic waterways used during the French & Indian and Revolutionary Wars.

Season: May - September
Historic train station where Vice President Roosevelt departed from the Adirondacks on Sept 14, 1901 to Buffalo where he was sworn in as the 26th President. History of alpine skiing, mining & historical train diorama. Local interest exhibits.

Price: $

Season: End May-Oct
Enjoy a guided historic walking tour along Main Street with a local historian. Begin at the Nationally recognized historic railroad station where Theodore Roosevelt learned he was the 26th President. Listen to stories of life in the Adirondacks - logging, tanneries, and mining. Look for the yellow umbrella! I Spy is described as a scavenger hunt for ages 6-12 but it's fun for everyone!

Community Theatre performances. Sponsors Seagle Music Colony and Pendragon Theatre performances.

Season: July-Aug, Sat-Sun only
Museum of industrial machinery, photos. Houses the first American made grinding machine made by Bagley & Sewell of Watertown. Free.

Price: Free

Season: May-Oct, check website
Five miniature worlds of model trains in a 5,000 sq ft exhibit space including 50 trains, trolleys, animations, computer lighting, scenery and backdrops. Exhibits include The Station, 1939 World's Fair, Park Ave, Hellgate Bridge, and Prince Edward Island. Groups welcome. Season passes available.

Price: $

Season: YR
See the history of Lake George area and Father Issac Jogues, a Jesuit missionary, as depicted in the stained glass windows of the church. Father Jogues is believed to be the first European to see Lake George.

Price: Free

Season: July-Aug
Old schoolhouse from early days of Lake Luzerne. Antique desks, furniture, school bell. Free.

Price: Free

Season: June - September
Lakeside teaching studio, 1924-1934, of Metropolitan Opera diva Marcella Sembrich. On the National Historic Register. Artifacts, photographs and memorabilia of her life and career at the Metropolitan Opera and in Europe. Summer concerts, lectures and film evenings.

Season: May - October
Photography of Lake George and points elsewhere. Fine art and still-life paintings; modern stained glass, bronze wildlife sculpture. Post cards and handmade photo cards of the Lake George area. Works by local artists and points beyond.

Season: YR
The Shirt Factory features diverse group of artists, artisans and craftspeople showcasing their works. Sculpture, fiber arts, paintings, pottery, pastels, rustic furniture, photography, gift shop and much more.

Price: Free

Season: July
Silver Bay YMCA offers a variety of music programs including Musicians in Residence and the String Quartet performing summer concerts on Sunday.

Season: July-Aug by appointment
History of school life and industry in historic home in Stony Creek, photos, maps.

Price: Free

Three shipwreck sites in Lake George managed by NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation.

Season: May-Oct by appointment
Gallery featuring Adirondack photography, original oil paintings and watercolors by local artists. Perennial flower farm.

Price: Free

Season: YR
The Widlund Gallery; home to Our Town Theatre Group performances. Upper Hudson Musical Arts concerts and Teenagers Only! activities. Meeting rooms, auditorium.

Price: $/Free

Season: July-Sept
History of Town of Chester, Pottersville areas. Photographs, antiques, artifacts. Free.

Price: Free

Season: YR
Exhibits in The Ruplin Gallery by local and regional artists. The Book Arts Collection contains examples of books that are mainly unusual for the quality of the hand work and materials that have gone into them. A member of the Southern Adirondack Library System.

Price: Free

Season: YR
72 acre facility; Museum features wildlife exhibits of native mammals and birds; children's activity room. Nature programs, Butterfly and perennial gardens, birding, honeybees, Maple sugaring, woodworking. Hiking, picnic shelter. Guided snowshoe hikes.

Season: YR
Providing the Adirondack region with professional chamber music, classical music, and jazz performances.

Season: YR
Learn about building and operation of a model railroad. Train memorabilia, four layouts from N to G and library. Activities include monthly open houses, weekly operating sessions and an annual train show.

Price: Free

Season: Sep-May
Changing exhibitions, lectures, receptions, readings, and concerts.

Price: Free

Season: YR
Warrensburg's history from 1780's to present featuring agriculture, industry, recreation and home life including antique clothing, furniture, quilts, displays of famous "locals". Hours vary. Like us on Facebook.

Price: Free

Season: YR
Monthly exhibits by a variety of local and regional artists in many mediums.

Price: Free

Season: YR
Go! where children discover the world. A unique, hands-on children's museum featuring art, artifacts and activities from around the world. Outreach programs. Onsite tours for groups.

Price: $