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    NOTICE: A Flock of Signs
    Dan T.

    The first thing most people think of when they hear "sculpture park" is probably Storm King, but the Fields Sculpture Park at the Omi International Arts Center should also be highly considered. Granted that its 60 acres pales in comparison to the 500 acres of Storm King, there is still a delightful and intriguing collection of art interspersed throughout a varying milieu of wooded areas, wetlands, and meadows. Although this park lacks the kinds of sculptures at Storm King that awe you with their sheer size and monstrosity, a walk through Omi gives you much more of an experience of discovery, with hidden gems and surprises scattered throughout the different settings; it's as if art is "popping up" with every twist and turn, which makes exploring the grounds all the more interesting. Oh, and did I mention that it's free? Bonus. So if you're up in the area and have a free afternoon to leisurely explore and stroll through rolling fields and wooded lands, the Fields Sculpture Park is definitely worth a visit.

    Come here for: Culture + nature + exercise _____________ How is it possible that The Fields has only two yelp reviews? This place is so far off the radar, it deserves an MH flight number. (Too soon??) Drive 2.5 hours north from NYC, and there's this amazing outdoor sculpture park that makes the art form come to life. If you're looking for ropes and guards and black-clad cognoscenti, you're going to be disappointed. Instead, The Fields invites you to lace up your Reeboks and wander unguided through more than 200 acres of rolling hills dotted with more than 100 pieces of art. Around every bend is something unexpected: a giant white head next to the forest, a wooden grid spilling down the hillside, a stack of warped metal tubes wedged between two trees. Instead of presenting sculpture in a sterile white box, The Fields juxtaposes art and nature in a way that's constantly surprising. Every piece has room to breathe and multiple vantage points for consideration. From a distance, you form a first impression, only to change your mind as you draw closer, then reconsider once again when you find the discreet little plaque listing title, artist and materials. Come back a different season or a different time of day, and nothing looks exactly the same. I don't pretend to get it all, much less like it all. (What's up with the utility van surrounded by solar panels? Do I need to call a tow truck?) Individual pieces can range from beautiful to baffling, but they're almost never boring, and that's why I come back again and again. Notes: 1. Admission is free. 2. Park is open during daylight hours. 3. Dogs are welcome. 4. Bikes are available at the Visitors Center. 5. Cross-country skiing is allowed in the winter (and trails are groomed).

    Artist show exhibit using paper!
    Kaitlyn M.

    Great cultural hub in my small hometown of Ghent! My boyfriend works as a counselor for Camp Omi and the children who attend the camp have so much fun. There are always events and actives happening at Omi, along with a great cafe on site! I recently went to an artist show at the barn and had a wonderful afternoon talking to Lara, an artist from Egypt who is documenting the revolution! Always a great way to spend the day. Great place to take your family. I loved to come here with my grandma when I was about ten but good for any age!

    Cara M.

    My boyfriend surprised me and planned a whole day out of town for me. This was one of the stops. We live about 10 minutes from Storm King Art Center and I have been there a few times. I actually found my experience here more enjoyable! First of all, it's free! Also way less people. For most of the afternoon we didn't see a single other person. They told us it takes about an hour to explore the park, but if you are an art enthusiast I recommend at least 2 hours. I thoroughly enjoyed my experience. This place in wonderful!

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    Just visited today - amazing! It's also called Art Omi. Worth a visit.

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    Steepletop - The historical gallery in the office building. All the slips of paper are descriptions of Millay's great-grandparents, etc.

    Steepletop

    4.5(4 reviews)
    11.7 mi

    Steepletop was poet Edna St Vincent Millay's home before she passed away in 1950. According to the…read morenice man we spoke to here, the Millay Society opened the house and grounds up to the public in 2009-ish. What's here now is the house itself, which is only open for guided tours, the gardens, a small historical gallery with the poet's family tree, photographs, and heirlooms, and a Poetry Trail into the woods, leading to Millay and her family's burial site. Admission was a bit more than I expected, but I'm not sure why (why it surprised me, that is... not why it was more than I thought). Maybe it's just been a while since I've been to a historical site, but it was $10 to view the gallery and grounds; guided tours of the garden or the house would have been $16; and a combination of the two comes to $25. According to the website, reservations are required for the tours. Walking the Poetry Trail alone is free. As you come up East Hill Rd from Rte 22, you'll see the Millay Colony for the Arts on the left. That's not it. Keep going until you see the sign for the Millay Society at Steepletop. The gravel driveway is very tight, but I don't think they get a lot of traffic. There are signs directing you to the side of the house, where you enter and go up some stairs to the office. My friend and I did the gallery/grounds thing. The man working there was amazingly informative and loved to tell us everything he knew, but he was also happy to step back and let us browse on our own. The family tree that sprawled across an entire wall, though it was packed with information, seemed a little chintzy, created with printouts and typed with not always the best grammar -- a bit disappointing for an author's home. In addition to the family history, you can find books from Millay's own collection, a piano she grew up with, a couple of garments -- one real, one a replica -- and a few other family mementos. When we had fully saturated the gallery's displays and our host's brain, he pulled out a big cardboard map to show us the layout of the gardens. It wasn't until then that I realized the building we were in as not the actual Steepletop house. But it was not going to be hard to find. We memorized the map (why they don't have a version you can take with you, I have no idea) and ventured across East Hill Rd and up a soft incline to the house. All we could do was wander around the outside, but we were interested enough to do so. The Millay Society is in the process of restoring both the house and the gardens to their previous condition, and at the moment the gardens are in an odd in-between state where some bits are meticulous and well maintained and others are rustic and overgrown. But the swinging gates, the weather-stained sundial and other stone features, and grassy areas like the one that used to be a circular badminton court all still have a quaint and beautiful feel, even in their disrepair. The swimming pool has seen better days. And hopefully will see better ones to come. One intriguing stop in the garden area was Millay's writing cottage. It's small and musty and was the only building we encountered that didn't have its windows blocked from the inside, so we peeked in. A couple of desks are inside, one with a pile of papers and a composition book. The Poetry Trail is charming. It takes about 20 minutes to roam from the road to the burial area. Every so often, a passage of poetry by Millay appears on a post. The distance between poems is just right for letting the previous one sink in. Eventually we reached the burial site and found Millay and her husband Eugen Boissevain's graves easily enough. Millay's mother, sister, and brother-in-law are supposed to be there, too, but we didn't spot them right away (and it had started raining, so we weren't going to spend much time searching). Millay and Boissevain's flat gravestones were scattered with leaves and fit right into the unmanicured grove. I'm in this area once a year and might try a guided tour at some point. Whether you're a Millay fan or just Millay-curious, this little historic site is worth coming a little bit out of the way to check out.

    Things are very much closed up at the home of Edna St Vincent Millay, because of funding issues, I…read morebelieve. They need support in order to re-open, I suspect. Keep an eye out for future chances to experience this stunning site. I hope they get some help from an angel donor or some other source.

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    Steepletop - Welcome sign and visitor center at Steepletop.

    Welcome sign and visitor center at Steepletop.

    Steepletop - The Edna St Vincent Millay Society Home at Steepletop

    The Edna St Vincent Millay Society Home at Steepletop

    Steepletop - A rear view of Steepletop from one of the gardens.

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    A rear view of Steepletop from one of the gardens.

    Mass Moca - Outdoor garden Le Châlet - 7/10/2025

    Mass Moca

    4.4(229 reviews)
    38.3 mi

    Probably the most interesting art museum in Mass. If you're in the Boston area, it is a bit of a…read moredrive--we turned it into a weekend getaway, and it was worth it. The museum is massive, with tons of exhibits. You'll find a mix of contemporary art, immersive installations, plus regular live performances. We spent hours exploring/wandering. Some exhibits lean abstract or experimental, so it helps to go in with an open mind, but that's part of the appeal. Overall, it's a must-visit, and I hope to come back to catch their dusk/dawn exhibit, which seems to be a staple.

    My mom and I were members for a year. I do wish there were more new and frequently changing…read moreexhibits. We have always enjoyed our time there but prefer to go a bit less often so we don't keep seeing the same things. The buildings are so cool but it is large and a little confusing to navigate. As with any art, there's been certain exhibits we've loved and others that weren't as interesting to us. It would be cool to have some more info about what the building used to be and how it used to look. I think the price could be prohibitive for a lot of people or for families. I am not knowledgeable about contemporary art but I like browsing here. We have done one of the free tours before as well. There are some times exhibits and those require advance booking online (the cost in included). This means many times, there were no slots available during the days and times we'd planned to visit. That felt like some people were getting "more for their money" and like we'd missed out. There was a roller coaster that ran once per hour and so I think members got first choice of spots so there was no availability for months (we never did get to experience the ride). There are a few James Turrell experiences that also require pre-registration. This makes it impossible to see them if you do a spontaneous visit.

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    Mass Moca - Walkway

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    Mass Moca - Châlet evenings at MASS MOCA - 7/10/2025

    Châlet evenings at MASS MOCA - 7/10/2025

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    Empire State Aerosciences Museum - The virtual aéroplane ride

    Empire State Aerosciences Museum

    4.3(11 reviews)
    38.9 mi

    This place is incredible and extremely child friendly! The volunteers who run the operation are…read morebeyond spectacular and are extremely helpful. I have two under three who were extremely excited for the entirety of this museum. It was a perfect day. We ended up buying a membership and very much look forward to our returns in the future! Be sure to check out their virtual airplane ride it's actually really fun and was one of the highlights for my little guys!

    Somewhere hidden inside the Empire State Aerosciences Museum is a great museum trying to get out of…read morethe shell of a tired old one. The collection here isn't the issue per se. The outdoor air park has an enormous number of post-War jet planes and one helicopter, and while they're peeling in the sun and the displays need quite a bit of freshening up, it's an impressive collection of real aircraft, some of which you can peer into the cockpit. They have mostly American, one British, and several Soviet-era aircraft, almost all war planes and mostly fighters. The interior exhibits look like a hodge podge of things amateur enthusiasts have collected over the years, made, and shoved together into a vaguely coherent timeline from the dawn of flight to the early rocket age. It's not good. There are many individually interesting things but they're just too random, and many are quite old, dated, and some broken. Some of it looks like your Grandpa's model plane project after it's been sitting in the attic for 25 years. There is NO sense of curation here, as the displays, interpretation, and artifacts are random; again, it shows the marks of many volunteers and enthusiastic amateurs but without the guidance of professional curation. The collection is divided up into two buildings, one of which is the old GE hangar (a lovely building, somewhat ruined by having had a building within a building constructed on one side) with dusty interior exhibits in the minibuilding and some very random real plane exhibits alongside a bunch of obvious works-in-progress restorations that looks very much like an aviation junk yard. The second building leads out to the airpark, which is fenced in and can only be reached through the second building. What really would make a great museum is if they cut out about 90% of the artifacts, and focused on the local stories -- not even New York aviation as a whole, but starting with the story of the original use of the place, as the GE Aviation Testing Center in 1946, and working their way up to much, much more on the story of the 109th Airlift Wing at the adjacent Stratton Air National Guard base. If the collection focused on that -- even if it meant jettisoning the air park -- there could be a really cool and much more coherent story with both local interest and international importance. There are so many odd and undercurated GE-related historical museums and exhibits around here -- from the Edison in downtown, to MiSci, to the Schenectady County Historical Museum, to this place -- that are scattered about and thus tell an incoherent story about GE's presence in town -- one kind of wishes in the abstract GE would sponsor some kind of master museum just about the history of the place (like the Heinz Center in Pittsburgh, PA) and cleaved off the science museum part. An example of what I consider to be the kind of problem a place like this continues to have: they are currently trying to get money together to get a half-sized model of the SST. What? Whatever for? It's not like it's a real SST, and a half-sized model is just another maintenance headache that I doubt very much will be either a big attraction or key to understanding the story of aviation in New York. Yeah, the SST took off from a New York airport. I'm sure that's the hook. But it's not really the kind of direction this place needs to head. For now, this is a little sad and depressing but for the ardent history buff there's still things to dig out of it, and if you have an aviation-enthused youngster (but not one not already interested, I don't think) they will enjoy it. The front desk staff are pleasant and the small shop, while having not a whole lot of unique local-interest items, is reasonably priced for souvenirs. (I have suggested to them they at least add some models of the C-130s used by the 109th.) No food or drink (an outside cafe with a viewing area to watch the planes take off, with interpretive plaques, would be a big money maker) and extremely rudimentary bathroom facilities (in the second buliding).

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    Empire State Aerosciences Museum - The Agneta Airpark with 20+ Historical Aircraft

    The Agneta Airpark with 20+ Historical Aircraft

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    Empire State Aerosciences Museum - The Historical GE Hangar that ESAM calls home

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    The Historical GE Hangar that ESAM calls home

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