The Wildlife Sports and Educational Museum

Brought my boys here (8 and 5) and they loved it. Had just about any animal you could think of from every continent (minus Antarctica) . Also some impressive fishing/hunting displays. I'd HIGHLY recommend this place if you have kids of ANY age or if you're just looking for something to do to kill some time if you're in the area. The kids will love it and so will you. Inexpensive too. For the 3 of us, only paid $15 (kids under 6 free). Great memories , I know they'll remember this place for the rest of their lives BUT thankfully we will be back. I heard they're also expanding the museum into an adjacent area of the building as well this summer (2023) so we will go back for that also.

This place is awesome and huge. They plan on extending the museum by 2023. I encourage anyone to go there

This definitely a unique Wildlife Museum. Meet Bob the gentleman in my photo posing at the bird display that holds a precious memory of his brother and a squirrel from college and a bird his brother caught with a unique addition to the taxidermy prize possession memory.
When you enter through the unused front door and will be in the gift shop then you will be asked if you want to visit the museum, of course you do.
There are plenty of donated prize mounted deer or is it considered buck mount. Anyways, you find Wildlife posed in action in battle or prowling.
Bob tells us he has been a taxidermist 75 years and approximately 66 displays are his personal work. I might be off a few possibly, oh well.
The painted display in the rear to the right near the restrooms, it was painted by Bob and took him 7 days. Lovely painting, he is proud of it and rightfully so.
If you show up late near closing just keep in mind you better move along quickly, Bob will still close on time...lol
I did not have enough time to browse the gift shop because you guessed it, showed up 30 minutes prior to closing...lol
I will return to visit his gift shop.
Thank you, Bob for a pleasant insight to a few of your displays.

Nestled in the gateway to the Adirondacks you will find the Wildlife Sports and Education Museum of Amsterdam, NY. A place that you can not miss, with its 30 plus foot tall frontiersman welcoming you with his hip handed assured stance.
Housed in what looks like a former market whose electric doors thrust you into a world of fur and fury. In these walls you will find a celebration of the relationship between predator and prey, and the inextricably tied energies that bind them together.
You will see animals and their adversaries staged in various states of struggle, locked in their eternal dance of meat and mercilessness. A cathedral of devotion to crouching, clawing and tearing-displaying forms of art that escape easy categorization , synthesizing the carnal ambitions of blue collar life with its rows of snares, weaponry and accouterments and the abstract aesthetic world of the mind.
I would venture to say this is the most interesting place in all of Amsterdam. A place not just for hunters and outdoorsmen but all curiosity seekers and naturalists

What an awesome place! Looks are decieving from the outside, but once you get into the showroom it's spectacular. $10 per adult to tour the museum. And nice gift selections in the main area. This establishment is cash only.