Education :: Exhibition Overview Tours
Duration: 30 minutes
Grade Level: 1st - 12th Grades
Availability: May to June
| Adirondack Wilderness Tour | ||
| The Adirondack Park is one of the nation's largest protected natural environments. How did this vast mountain range develop? How did logging, mining and the tourist industry affect the land and its inhabitants? Visit a fishing camp and a 19th century mine. | ||
| New York Metropolis Tour | ||
| How does a city grow from a trading port to a thriving metropolis? What problems do we face as the population expands and technology evolves? Visit the Wall Street stock exchange, rush to catch the crowded A-Train, and don't forget to shuffle your feet to Sesame Street. | ||
| Native Peoples of New York Tour | ||
| Take a journey into the past to meet the people who were the first inhabitants of New York. What kind of tools did they need to survive as hunters? What affect did the changing environment have on their way of life? Visit the three sisters then sit in a Mohawk Longhouse and listen while grandmother tells stories you can learn by. Don't forget to stop by and examine the artwork of today's Native Peoples in the Governor's Collection of Contemporary Native American Crafts | ||
