A lot of the land in the Adirondack Park is “forever wild” – marked off-limits to development. There’s more to this place, though, than mountains and trees. People live here, too, in towns and villages across its 6 million acres. In a lot of ways, the Adirondacks are an experiment to see how communities can co-exist with their natural surroundings; the museum highlights that relationship in exhibits that span 20 buildings on its 32-acre campus. Transportation, an extensive collection of Adirondack watercraft, camps and resorts, logging – if it was important to the development of the Adirondacks, it’s on exhibit.