Cayuga Nature Center on the west side of Cayuga Lake in New York is an environmental education museum focused on the ecology and biodiversity of the Cayuga Basin. Its site began as the Cayuga Preventorium, a non-profit summer camp founded in 1914 for children exposed to tuberculosis, with a lodge built in 1939 through the Works Progress Administration on land donated by Ernest T. Paine. After the camp closed in 1942, the property served as Cornell graduate housing, then a conference center, before becoming a nature center in 1975. Renamed in 1979 and incorporated in 1981, it now includes trails, the historic lodge, and preserved old-growth woods for recreation and education.