These striking giant trolls will be on exhibit around the Adirondacks this summer
The Adirondacks are getting a little more mythical this summer.
Starting June 1, six towering wooden trolls will officially move into The Wild Center as part of a massive outdoor art exhibition from Danish artist Thomas Dambo.
The exhibition, called “TROLLS: Save the Humans,” runs through October 31 and marks the latest stop in Dambo’s sprawling global art project, “Trail of a Thousand Trolls.” If you’ve somehow missed his work over the past few years, Dambo has become internationally famous for creating massive folklore-inspired sculptures from reclaimed wood and discarded materials, placing them in forests, parks and hidden natural spaces around the world.
The Adirondack edition brings six new trolls to the trails and woods surrounding The Wild Center, the immersive natural history museum in Tupper Lake. But these aren’t just giant creatures hanging around for Instagram photo ops. According to the exhibition’s narrative, the young troll activists have noticed humans drifting further away from nature and causing significant damage to the planet in the process.
Their mission? Basically, to convince us to get it together. Each troll comes with its own personality and story, encouraging visitors to think about conservation, recycling, gardening and the increasingly radical idea of touching grass once in a while.
The setting couldn’t fit the vibe better. The Wild Center already embraces outdoor exploration, elevated forest walkways and hands-on environmental programming, so adding six enormous handmade trolls to the woods feels appropriate.
Like many of Dambo’s installations, the sculptures are built largely from salvaged materials, part of the artist’s long-running mission to turn trash into something unexpectedly beautiful. The pieces blend environmental messaging with fairy-tale weirdness in a way that feels whimsical and slightly haunting.
The exhibition is included with admission to The Wild Center and will be spread across the museum’s outdoor campus all summer and fall long. Leaf-peeping season just got significantly more interesting.
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