List of museums in New Jersey explained

This list of museums in New Jersey is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

Lists of New Jersey institutions which are not museums are noted in the "See also" section, below.

List

NameImageLocationCountyRegionArea of studySummary
AtlanticLighthouse Lighthouse and local history museum
Historic house Operated by the Morris County Historical Society, 1853 Victorian Italianate mansion with changing exhibits on local history
Atlantic South Jersey African American website, locations in Atlantic City and Newtonville, African American history, culture, art
Art website, African art, operated by the Society of African Missions, changing exhibits of sub-Saharan sculpture and painting, costumes, textiles, decorative arts, religion and folklore
Gateway Region African American New Jersey African American history and African artifacts
Gateway Region Medical Planned museum
Air Victory Museum Aviation website
South Jersey Museum ship Delaware Bay oyster dredgeboat built in 1928
Encompasses the Howell Iron Works Company, an industrial center in the 1830s, as well as a working blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, general store, bakery, church, enameling building, carriage house, row houses, and other homes
Monmouth Shore Region Historic house Operated by the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum, 1710 tavern house
American Hungarian Museum Gateway Region Ethnic website, also known as Hungarian Folklore Museum, decorated eggs, lace, pottery, traditional clothing
American Indian Heritage Museum Burlington Delaware River Region Native American website, American Indian history and culture, operated by the Powhatan Renape Nation
Passaic Gateway Region History Victorian house with period rooms, labor exhibits, labor and immigrant library; historic meeting site for silk mill workers
Army Reserve Mobilization Museum Burlington Delaware River Region Military website, also known as Fort Dix Military Museum, history of U.S. Army Reserve, open to the public by appointment
Atlantic City Art Center Atlantic City Atlantic South Jersey Art website
Atlantic City Historical Museum Atlantic City Atlantic South Jersey Local history website, presented by the Atlantic City Free Public Library at the Garden Pier
Atlantic County Historical Society Atlantic South Jersey Local history website, household items and decorative arts, fine arts, weaponry, maritime artifacts and toys
Bergen Gateway Region Transportation - Aerospace New Jersey's aviation and space heritage
Avalon History Center South Jersey Local history website
Delaware River Region Local history website, headquarters and museum for the Historical Society of Princeton
Hudson Gateway Region Local history under development as facility is restored
Bayonne Hudson Gateway Region Firefighting [1]
Delaware River Region Historic house 1816 furnished farmhouse on 32acres with trails, living history programs
Barnegat Historic Heritage Village Shore Region Open air website, operated by the Barnegat Historical Society, includes 4 buildings and 3 smaller structures; Lippincott-Faulkenburg House, the Barber Shop, the Edwards House, the Butcher Shop, a corn crib, a motel cabin and a three-hole necessary
Barnegat Light Ocean Shore Region Local history Located in 1903 schoolhouse, includes Edith Duff Gwinn Garden
Barnegat Light Ocean Shore Region Lighthouse Lighthouse and museum interpretive center
Middlesex Gateway Region Art Art center website
Burlington South Jersey Living Includes Batsto mansion, a sawmill, a 19th-century ore boat, a charcoal kiln, ice and milk houses, a carriage house and stable, a blacksmith and wheelwright shop, a gristmill and a general store
Camden Delaware River Region USS New Jersey (BB-62)
Bay Head Historical Society Museum Ocean Shore Region Historic house website, 19th-century period farmhouse
Beavertown History Center Morris Skylands Region Local history Operated by the Beaverton Historical Society[2]
Belskie Museum of Art & Science Bergen Gateway Region Art website, works of sculptor Abram Belskie and 10 changing exhibitions each year
Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house website, 18th-century house, operated by the Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society
Bergen Gateway Region Multiple Art and science, currently closed and seeking new location
Berkeley Historical Museum Ocean Shore Region Local history [3]
Skylands Region Transportation 19th-century bridge tender's house on the Delaware and Raritan Canal
Blairstown MuseumBlairstownWarrenKittatinny ValleyLocal HistoryArtifact collections are used to interpret the area's history through permanent and changing exhibits and to educate the public about the area's history through programs, resource materials, and events.
Morris Skylands Region Local history Located in the Colonial Revival and Victorian Gothic styles house of Dr. John L. Taylor
Gateway Region Historic house Home from 1772 to 1795 of Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress
Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house Operated by the Lawrenceville Historical Society, restored mid-18th-century house
Bedensville Schoolhouse Somerset Skylands Region School Operated by Van Harlingen Historical Society for education programs[4]
Somerset Skylands Region Local history Operated by the Historical Society of the Somerset Hills[5]
Bridgeton Hall of Fame All Sports MuseumCumberland South Jersey Hall of fame - sports information
Brigantine History Museum Atlantic South Jersey Local history Operated by the Brigantine Historical Society[6]
Middlesex Gateway Region Historic house Operated by the Jersey Blue chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Middlesex Gateway Region Historic house Operated by the Jamesburg Historical Association
Burlington Delaware River Region Open air website, complex including 3 historic houses: Bard-How House, James Fenimore Cooper House, and Captain James Lawrence House; Aline Wolcott Museum Galleries with exhibits of local history
Burlington Delaware River Region Prison Operated by Burlington County Parks and the Prison Museum Association
Morris Skylands Region Local history Located in an old railroad station
Caesar Hoskins Log CabinCumberland South Jersey Historic house 18th-century house, open by appointment
Union Gateway Region Local history Operated by the Union Township Historical Society
Califon Historical Society Station Museum Skylands Region Railroad website, local history and railroad artifacts[7]
Camden County Museum Camden Camden Delaware River Region Local history website, operated by the Camden County Historical Society, includes 19th-century domestic, farm and workplace tools, one room schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, antique vehicles
Camden Shipyard and Maritime Museum Camden Camden Delaware River Region Maritime website, local maritime history including boat and ship builders, boating, natural history of the Delaware River and area streams
Camp Olden Civil War Round Table and Museum Mercer Delaware River Region History website, Civil War and Native American exhibits
Cape May Point Cape May South Jersey Maritime Located in Cape May Point State Park
Cape May Maritime Museum Cape May South Jersey Maritime website, planned museum, Cape May County's maritime heritage
Carter House Union Gateway Region Historic house website, home of the Summit Historical Society, mid-18th-century house
Center for the Arts in Southern New Jersey Burlington Delaware River Region Art website
Centennial Cottage Monmouth Shore Region Historic house website, operated by the Historical Society of Ocean Grove, late 19th-century period cottage used for Camp Meeting retreats
Essex Gateway Region Historic house Operated by the Montclair Historical Society, 1896 home with synthesis of styles popular in the last quarter of the 19th century
Children's Museum of Somerset County Skylands Region Children's website
Monmouth Shore Region Historic church Former Episcopal chapel on the Jersey Shore where seven United States presidents worshiped
Princeton Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house Revolutionary period home located in Princeton Battlefield State Park
Clifton Arts Center Passaic Gateway Region Art website, community art gallery and outdoor sculpture park
Collings-Knight House Camden Delaware River Region Historic house website, operated by the Friends of Collings-Knight House
Cape May Cape May South Jersey Historic house website, 1775 tavern with colonial era cooking/eating room and bedroom, changing exhibits of local history, operated by the Greater Cape May Historical Society
Morris Skylands Region Mill website, Operated by the Morris County Park Commission, restored 19th-century gristmill
Middlesex Gateway Region Local history Also known as Cornelius Low House / Middlesex County Museum, changing exhibits of state and local history
Country Living MuseumCumberland South Jersey History information, farm and shop tools, household equipment, glassware, kitchen utensils, World War II era memorabilia, restored antique clocks, sewing machines, typewriters; part of Dutch Neck Village, a collection of unique shops
Monmouth Shore Region Historic house Operated by the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum, served as headquarters for British General Sir Henry Clinton before the Battle of Monmouth in 1778
Cranbury Museum Middlesex Gateway Region Local history website, operated by the Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society
Essex Gateway Region Historic house Operated by the Montclair Historical Society, Federal mansion with 18th- and 19th-century furnishings
Union Gateway Region Historic house Operated by the Cranford Historical Society, 19th-century house
Cumberland County Prehistorical Museum Cumberland South Jersey Archaeology website, operated by the Cumberland County Historical Society, stone and bone artifacts, pottery, native crafts, fossils
Cumberland South Jersey Maritime website, operated by the Bayshore Center at Bivalve, oyster industry and shipping
Dennis Township Museum and History Center Cape May South Jersey Local history website, located in the Old School House
DePace Sports Museum and Library Collingswood Camden Delaware River Region Sports website, Sports history museum and library based on the collections of Dr. Nicholas L. DePace
Denville Historical Society & Museum Morris Skylands Region Local history
Passaic Gateway Region Historic house General George Washington's revolutionary war headquarters in the Preakness Valley
Discovery Shell Museum Cape May South Jersey Natural history Retail store with museum display of over 10,000 species of seashells from all over the world[8]
Ocean Shore Region Open-air Includes Double Trouble Historic Village, a former company town, a sawmill, and a cranberry sorting and packing house
Dover History Museum Morris Skylands Region Local history website, operated by the Dover Area Historical Society
Union Gateway Region Historic house House dating back to 1690, operated by the Clark Historical Society
Union Gateway Region Local history Building owned by the City of Plainfield, museum operated by the Historical Society of Plainfield
Princeton Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house Official residence of the governor of New Jersey, built in 1835
East Brunswick Museum Middlesex Gateway Region Local history website Located in Old Bridge
Piscataway Middlesex Gateway Region Open air Includes church, tavern, schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, barracks and several homes
East Point LightCumberland South Jersey Maritime
Eatontown Historical Museum Monmouth Shore Region Local history [9]
Edward Compton HouseCumberland South Jersey Historic house Late 19th-century Victorian house, operated by the Mauricetown Historical Society
Hudson Gateway Region History Museum of immigration; ferry boats depart from Liberty State Park
Ely House Museum Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house website, operated by the Hightstown-East Windsor Historical Society
Cape May Cape May South Jersey Living Victorian mansion, operated by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts
Firehouse Gallery Burlington Delaware River Region Art Focuses on work of artist Eric Gibbons
Somerset Skylands Region Photography website, cameras, photographic equipment, art and science of photography
Monmouth Shore Region Multiple Part of Gateway National Recreation Area, includes the former coast artillery fort, Sandy Hook Light, the largest concentration of sea coast artillery batteries, site of first Army proving ground, 1894 USLSS Spermaceti Cove lifesaving station, only complete Nike missile site in the eastern United States and the intact 19th-century Fort Hancock community
Bergen Gateway Region Military American Revolution fort site, center has exhibits about the fort
Fort Lee Bergen Gateway Region Local history Operated by the Fort Lee Historical Society, located in the 1922 Judge Moore House, adjacent to Monument Park
Sussex Skylands Region Historic house Facebook site, operated by the Montague Association for Restoration of Community History, late 19th-century house
Morris Skylands Region Agriculture website, operated by the Morris County Park Commission, working farm, using the tools, techniques, and materials of a turn-of-the-century farm
Sussex Skylands Region Natural history Over 4000 mineral specimens with a large display of fluorescent minerals, mine replica, fossils, Native American artifacts
Friar Mountain Model Railroad Museum Sussex Skylands Region Railroad website, model train displays, also American Revolutionary War history
Camden Delaware River Region Children's
Bergen Gateway Region Living Living Dutch farm museum
George F. Boyer Historical Museum Cape May South Jersey Local history website, operated by the Wildwood Historical Society, includes National Marbles Hall of Fame
George Segal Gallery Montclair Essex Gateway Region Art website, part of Montclair State University
Gibbon House Museum Cumberland South Jersey Historic house website, 1730 furnished house, barn museum with 18th-century tools, doctor's office, Swedish granary log building, operated by the Cumberland County Historical Society
Giffordtown Schoolhouse Museum Ocean Shore Region Local history website, operated by the Tuckerton Historical Society, Tuckerton Wireless, telephone equipment, Native American artifacts, railroad, maritime, area businesses and industries
Gloucester County Police Museum Gloucester Delaware River Region Law enforcement [10]
Camden Delaware River Region Local history Operated by the Historical Society of Haddonfield, houses collections of furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries, early New Jersey glass, needlework samplers and costumes dating back to the 18th century, pottery exhibit, doll and toy collection, tool museum
Camden Delaware River Region Historic house 1715 stone house, open for special events, 3rd floor museum of local history
Essex Gateway Region Historic house Birthplace of President Grover Cleveland, artifacts from the 1830s to 1850s
Mercer Delaware River Region Art 35acres sculpture park and indoor art gallery
Somerset Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the Van Harlingen Historical Society
Hackettstown Historical Society Museum Skylands Region Local history website
Somerset Skylands Region Historic house 19th-century farmhouse and barns, open for events, operated by the Meadows Foundation
Passaic Gateway Region Historic house website, operated by the City of Clifton, 18th-century Dutch farmhouse with rooms decorated in many different period styles, also known as the Hamilton House Museum
Hammonton Arts Center Hammonton AtlanticSouth Jersey Art website
Delaware River Region Historic house Mid-18th-century house, site of the 1778 Hancock's Bridge massacre
South Jersey Historic house website, life and work of Harriet Tubman, former Macedonia Baptist Church Parsonage
Havens Homestead Museum Ocean Shore Region Historic house website, operated by the Brick Township Historical Society
Wildwood Cape May South Jersey Lighthouse Victorian style keepers house and lighthouse
Delaware River Region Art Area historic glass making and contemporary glass art
Bergen Gateway Region Historic house 18th-century Gothic revival home
Sussex Skylands Region Local history Operated by the Sussex County Historical Society
Bergen Gateway Region Art website, wildlife art
Historical Society of Bloomfield Museum Essex Gateway Region Local history website, located in the children's wing of the Bloomfield Public Library
Cape May South Jersey Open air website, Early American (1790–1840) open-air living history museum, open late May through mid-September
Monmouth Shore Region Living 1890s living historical farm located in Holmdel Park
Bergen Gateway Region Historic houses Operated by the Bergen County Historical Society and HNBLPC, American Revolutionary War battleground site, includes the Steuben House that served as Gen. Washington's headquarters in 1780, Campbell-Christie House, Demarest House Museum, Westervelt-Thomas Barn and 1889 Swing Bridge. Jersey–Dutch architecture. BCHS collections/artifacts, made or used in Bergen County, are on exhibit.
Morris Skylands Region Open air Former ironworks, place where Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse first demonstrated the electric telegraph, includes nine buildings furnished to depict life at Speedwell during the early 19th century
Monmouth Shore Region Open air website, 1754 Waln House, operating 19th-century gristmill and farm buildings on 36acres
Historical Society of Penns Grove, Carneys Point and Oldmans Museum Salem Delaware River Region Local history website
Hudson Gateway Region Local history
Hudson Gateway Region Firefighting
Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead Museum Hunterdon Skylands Region Agriculture website, includes print shop, woodworking shop, kitchen, John Holcombe House, doctor/dentist office, timber working tools, dairy exhibit, loom, blacksmith shop, tractor barn
Monmouth Shore Region Historic house Operated by the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum, 1754 Dutch farm house
Hope Historical Society Museum Warren Skylands Region Local history [11]
Mercer Delaware River Region Local history Includes antiques, Native American artifacts
Bergen Gateway Region Living Operated by the Upper Saddle River Historical Society, early-18th-century house
Mercer Delaware River Region Agriculture Facility of the Mercer County Park Commission; 1900 living farm museum
Hunterdon Skylands Region Art website, contemporary art, craft and design
Hunterdon Skylands Region Historic house Operates the mid 19th-century Empire period Doric House by appointment and for events
Gloucester Delaware River Region Local history Operated by the Gloucester County Historical Society
Imagine That Discovery Museum for Children Morris Skylands Region Children's website
Haddonfield Camden Delaware River Region Historic tavern Built in 1750, site where New Jersey was legally created
InfoAgeMonmouth Shore Region Multiple website, located at Camp Evans, includes National Broadcasters Hall of Fame, New Jersey shipwrecks, military electronics, computers, vintage radios
Insectropolis Ocean Shore Region Natural history website, live and mounted insects, interactive exhibits
Ireland Hoffer House Gloucester Delaware River Region Historic house Facebook site, operated by the Monroe Township Historical Society
Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house 18th-century house, headquarters of the New Jersey State Society of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Island Heights Cottage Museum Ocean Shore Region Local history website, operated by the Island Heights Cultural & Heritage Association
Jack Allen Memorial Country Living Museum Burlington Delaware River Region History website, country store, bank display, farm and country artifacts
SomersetSkylands Region Historic house 18th-century Dutch frame house associated with the Pluckemin encampment of 1778-79
Lambertville Hunterdon Skylands Region Historic house Operated by the Lambertville Historical Society, mid-19th-century period house
Jersey City Hudson Gateway Region Art American visual art and material culture, currently closed[12]
Jersey Explorer Children's Museum Essex Gateway Region Children's website
Jersey Shore Children's Museum Atlantic South Jersey Children's website, hands-on discovery center that stimulates creativity, imagination and learning through interactive play
Monmouth Shore Region Ethnic - Jewish website
Essex Gateway Region Ethnic - Jewish Oldest synagogue in continuous use in Newark, exhibitions
Jim and Mary Lee Museum Warren Skylands Region History Site of Morris Canal Inclined Plane 9 West, canal buildings and turbine[13] [14]
Jim Kirk Maritime Room Atlantic South Jersey Maritime Operated by the Linwood Historical Society at the Linwood Library, ship models, maritime displays[15]
John Abbot II House Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house website, 1730 colonial house, operated by the Historical Society of Hamilton Township
Newark Essex Gateway Region Historic house Part of the Newark Museum, late 19th-century mansion with eight period rooms, two hallways and six thematic galleries of decorative arts
John DuBois Maritime Museum Cumberland South Jersey Maritime website, operated by the Cumberland County Historical Society, builders' models of local craft, tools, blocks, riggings
Island Heights Ocean Shore Region Historic house House and studio of trompe-l'œil artist John F. Peto
Bergen Gateway Region Historic house 18th-century house, also known as Blackledge-Kearney House or Cornwallis Headquarters; part of the New Jersey portion of the Palisades Interstate Park
Middlesex Gateway Region Historic house Late 18th-century house, operated by Kearny Cottage Historical Society
Hudson Gateway Region Local history Located in the Kearney Public Library
Keyport Fire Museum Monmouth Shore Region Firefighting Fire department history and fire prevention[16]
Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum Mercer Delaware River Region Children's website, focus is understanding and interacting with racial and ethnic differences, open by appointment
Morris Skylands Region Historic house Operated by the Roxbury Historic Trust
Burlington Delaware River Region Mill Restored grist mill dating to 1778
Kuser Farm Mansion Hamilton Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house website, late 19th-century mansion and outbuildings
Lacey Schoolhouse Museum Ocean Shore Region Local history website, operated by the Lacey Historical Society
Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum MorrisSkylands Region Local history website, located on the grounds of Hopatcong State Park
Lakehurst Historical Museum Ocean Shore Region Wednesdays & Sundays from 12:30 P.M. to 3:P.M Local history website, operated by the Borough of Lakehurst Historical Society
Lakewood Heritage Museum Ocean Shore Region Local history website
Passaic Gateway Region Historic house Operated by the Passaic County Historical Society, late-19th-century period rooms and changing exhibits about Passaic County history
Latvian Ethnographic Museum Monmouth Shore Region Ethnic website, information, folk costumes, hand woven belts and blankets, colorful knitted woolen mittens, jewelry, operated by the NJ Latvian Society
Atlantic South Jersey Local history Operated by the Linwood Historical Society, exhibits of local history and culture
"Lest We Forget" - Black Holocaust Museum of Slavery Camden Delaware River Region History website, private collection of slavery artifacts and Jim Crow memorabilia, available by appointment
Union Gateway Region Historic house Victorian style mansion, located at Kean University
Jersey City Hudson Gateway Region Science Located in Liberty State Park
Bergen Gateway Region Local history Operated by the Lyndhurst Historical Society
Little Red Schoolhouse Museum Ocean Shore Region School Operated by the Waretown Historical Society[17]
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences Ocean Shore Region Art website, free public art gallery
Long Beach Island Museum Ocean Shore Region Local history website, operated by the Long Beach Island Historical Association
Passaic Gateway Region Industry Includes Long Pond Ironworks Museum
Longport Museum Atlantic South Jersey Local history Operated by the Longport Historical Society[18]
Morristown MorrisSkylands Region Historic house website, showcases 18th- and 19th-century American and English fine and decorative arts
Magnolia Train Station Museum Camden Delaware River Region Local history website, operated by the Magnolia Historical Society
MacKenzie Museum Monmouth Shore Region Historic house website, operated by the Howell Historical Society
Jersey City Hudson Gateway Region Art Exhibition space for contemporary art, includes the Richard Meier Model Museum
Margate Historical Society Museum AtlanticSouth Jersey Local history New museum planned in Margate City Hall[19]
Brigantine Atlantic South Jersey Natural history Wildlife rehabilitation center for marine animals, includes natural history museum
Marlpit Hall Monmouth Shore Region Historic house Operated by the Monmouth County Historical Association, 1756 home that is a stop on the New Jersey Women's Heritage Trail
Bergen Gateway Region Railway Historic train station and exhibits of railroad artifacts
Wayne Passaic Gateway Region Historic house Dutch stone colonial house, on the same property as the Van Riper-Hopper House[20]
Bergen Gateway Region Local history Antique toys, rocks and minerals, period rooms, changing exhibits
Union Gateway Region Historic tavern Early tavern life and stagecoach transportation
Piscataway Middlesex Gateway Region Historic house Plans to add exhibit on Ross Hall
Millbrook Village Warren Skylands Region Living website, located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, recreated turn-of-the-century village
Millburn-Short Hills Historical Society Museum Essex Gateway Region Local history website, located at the Short Hills train station
Union Gateway Region Living 18th-century farmhouse with costumed docents demonstrating colonial crafts
Cumberland South Jersey Aviation website, located at the Millville Municipal Airport, Millville's role in aviation history and the history of the P-47 Thunderbolt
Monmouth Shore Region Military American Revolutionary War battlefield site, visitor center exhibits and 18th-century Craig House
Monmouth Shore Region Local history Includes art, furniture, ceramics, textiles, military artifacts
Monmouth Shore Region Multiple website, art, cultural history and science, children's wing and planetarium, located on the campus of Brookdale Community College
Montclair Essex Gateway Region Art Collections include Hudson River School, portraiture, American Impressionism, the American Scene, Modernism, Abstract Expressionism and 20th-century works by African-American artists
Morris Skylands Region Local history operated by the Montville Township Historical Society[21]
Morristown Morris Skylands Region Multiple website, Costumes and textiles, fine art, decorative art, dolls and toys, natural science, geology, paleontology, anthropology
Morris Plains Museum Morris Skylands Region Local history website
Morristown Morris Skylands Region History Three sites important during the American Revolution: the Ford Mansion, a historic house museum, Fort Nonsense and Jockey Hollow
Princeton Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house Former New Jersey Governor's Mansion and 18th-century home of Richard Stockton, museum showcases the cultural heritage of New Jersey through fine, folk, and decorative arts
Moses D. Heath Farm Monmouth Shore Region Agriculture website, agriculture and horticulture exhibits
Mount Tabor Historical Society Museum Morris Skylands Region Local history website, located at the Short Hills train station
Mullica Township Historical Society & Museum Atlantic South Jersey Local historywebsite, located in the former building of Hilda S Frame School
Cape May South Jersey History Furnishings, costumes, tools, decorative and practical objects from the 17th to 20th centuries, including Native American and maritime exhibits in the historic John Holmes House.
Morris Skylands Region History History and lifeways of ordinary people of pre-industrial New Jersey, including hand tools, products and household objects
Jersey City Hudson Gateway Region Art Contemporary Russian art
Museum of the Historical Society of Ocean Grove Monmouth Shore Region Local history website, artifacts relative to the history of Ocean Grove, the Holiness Movement, Camp Meetings, Methodism, Monmouth County & 19th-century life
Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation New Brunswick Middlesex Gateway Region Ethnic - Hungarian website, Hungarian immigrant life including fine art, folk art and folk life
Museum of White Township Warren Skylands Region Local history Operated by the White Township Historical Society[22]
Nail House MuseumCumberland South Jersey Local history [23]
Monmouth Shore Region Military Role of the New Jersey Militia and National Guard in state history
Mercer Shore Region Military Includes weapons, uniforms and other equipment, 20 tanks, vehicles and cannon
Cape May South Jersey Aviation Located at Cape May Airport, aircraft, engines, aviation artifacts, military memorabilia, aircraft engines and more housed in a 92000square feet all-wooden hangar
Monmouth Shore Region Lighthouse Lighthouse and museum
Navy Lakehurst Information Center Ocean Shore Region Aviation website, open by appointment only, collections of the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society, history of the Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, home to airships and site of Hindenburg Disaster, tours of Lakehurst Hangar No. 1
Nelden-Roberts Stonehouse Montague Sussex Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the Montague Association for Restoration of Community History
Newark Essex Gateway Region Multiple A museum of art and science; American art, decorative arts, and arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas and the ancient world; Planetarium, Victoria Hall of Science, natural science collections in geology, fossils and botany; Ballantine House, Newark Fire Museum and 1784 Old Stone Schoolhouse
New Jersey Firefighters Museum Morris Skylands Region Firefighting website, part of the New Jersey Firemen's Home, exhibits include steamers, ornate hose carts and fire trucks
Newark Essex Gateway Region History Museum collections include costumes, furniture, paintings, prints, ceramics, glass, tools and more, also houses library and archives
Ocean Shore Region Maritime website
New Jersey Museum of Boating Ocean Shore Region Maritime website
Monmouth Shore Region Railroad Located in Allaire State Park, heritage narrow gauge railway and displays
Bergen Gateway Region Maritime Home of USS Ling (SS-297), a World War II submarine
Mercer Delaware River Region State capitol
Trenton Mercer Delaware River Region Multiple Archaeology/ethnology, cultural history, fine art and natural history
New Jersey State Police Museum and Learning Center Mercer Delaware River Region Law enforcement website
Monmouth Shore Region Military Museum, memorial and education center
New Sweden Farmstead MuseumCumberland South Jersey Open air Reproduction of a 17th-century farmstead of the type built by early Swedish Finnish colonists
Newton Fire Museum Sussex Skylands Region Firefighting website
Northfield Museum and Casto House Atlantic South Jersey Local history Located in Birch Grove Park[24]
Hunterdon Skylands Region Multiple Miniature railway with 8miles of track, a 94-room dollhouse, doll museum, music hall, art gallery and Raritan River Railway steam train ride
Atlantic South Jersey Art website, part of Stockton University, contemporary and historic art
Essex Gateway Region Local history Operated by the Nutley Historical Society, includes Annie Oakley memorabilia, general store, toys and local history artifacts
Ocean City Arts Center Cape May South Jersey Art website, monthly art exhibits
Ocean City Historical Museum Ocean City Cape May South Jersey Local history website, located in Ocean City's Community and Cultural Center
Toms River Ocean Shore Region Historic house website, operated by the Ocean County Historical Society, Victorian period Pierson–Sculthorp House with period rooms, exhibits on local history
Ocean Gate Museum Ocean Shore Region Railroad website, historic railroad station with railroad and local history displays
Old Ardena Schoolhouse Monmouth Shore Region School website, operated by the Howell Historical Society
Trenton Mercer Delaware River Region History American colonial life and the American Revolution
Somerset Skylands Region Historic house Adjacent to the Wallace House, 18th-century parsonage
Old Millstone Forge Museum Somerset Skylands Region Mill website, restored blacksmith shop with demonstrations
Sussex Skylands Region School One room schoolhouse used from 1819 to 1926, operated by the Hardyston Heritage Society
Old Schoolhouse and Firehouse Museum SussexSkylands Region School website, open by appointment by the Ogdensburg Historical Society
Gloucester Delaware River Region Open air Operated by the Washington Township Historic Preservation Commission[25]
Pascack Historical Society Museum Bergen Gateway Region Local history website
Paterson Passaic Gateway Region Local history Cultural, industrial, technological, and geological history of Paterson; home of Fenian Ram submarine
Paul Robeson Galleries Newark Essex Gateway Region Art website, part of Rutgers University
Burlington Delaware River Region Biographical Home of suffragette Alice Paul
Westampton Township Burlington Delaware River Region Historic house 18th-century house open for events by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
Pennsville Township Historical Society Museum Salem Delaware River Region Local history website, also known as the Church Landing Farm Museum
Morris Skylands Region Local history Located in a historic railroad station
Camden Delaware River Region Art Visual and performing arts classes and lessons, exhibitions, music and dance performances, workshops, visiting artists' residencies and an outreach program
Moorestown Burlington Delaware River Region Art Visual and performing arts classes and lessons, exhibitions, music and dance performances, workshops, visiting artists' residencies and an outreach program
Perth Amboy Middlesex Gateway Region Maritime
Peter Mott House Camden Delaware River Region History website, operated by the Lawnside Historical Society; station house along the Underground Railroad
Phillipsburg Railroad Historians Museum Phillipsburg Warren Skylands Region Railroad website
Point Pleasant Historical Society Museum Ocean Shore Region Local history website
Camden Camden Delaware River Region Historic house Operated by the Camden County Historical Society, 18th-century period decorated mansion
Middletown Monmouth Shore Region Multiple Includes 18th-century Murray Farmhouse and barn open for events and a nature center with fossils and natural history displays
Lawrenceville Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house Operated by the Lawrenceville Historical Society, restored 1890-1920 period house for the bridgetender and his family along the Delaware and Raritan Canal, open by appointment
Hunterdon Skylands Region Open air Includes an 1877 grist mill, a 1790 linseed oil mill, an 1850 saw mill and a 1900 grain silo
Princeton Mercer Delaware River Region Art Mediterranean regions, Western Europe, China, United States, and Latin America
SomersetSkylands Region Art Classes, workshops and gallery with changing exhibits of prints
Middlesex Gateway Region Historic house Commissioned by the Proprietors of East Jersey to be the official residence of the Royal Governor William Franklin
Prospertown Schoolhouse Museum Ocean Shore Region School Open by appointment[26]
Ralston General Store Morris Skylands Region Historic store website, operated by the Ralston Historical Association, 1785 general store and post office
Randolph Museum Morris Skylands Region Local history website, operated by the Historical Society of Old Randolph
Readington Township Museums Hunterdon Skylands Region Multiple website, includes Bouman-Stickney Farmstead, Eversole-Hall House, Cold Brook School, and Taylor's Mill.
Gloucester Delaware River Region Historic house James and Ann Whitall House, 18th-century plantation house and battlefield site during the American Revolutionary War
Morris Skylands Local history website, operated by the Chatham Township Historical Society
Hunterdon Skylands Region Open air Historic grist mill and former quarry village, exhibits of area industry, agriculture and domestic history
Jersey City Hudson Gateway Region Architecture Exhibition of architectural projects, sculptures and collages by Richard Meier, located in Mana Contemporary
Jersey City Hudson Gateway Region Architecture Exhibition of architectural projects, sculptures and collages by Richard Meier, located in Mana Contemporary
Ridgewood Schoolhouse Museum Bergen Gateway Region Local history website, operated by the Ridgewood Historical Society
Passaic Gateway Region Historic house Located in Ringwood State Park, 19th- and 20th-century great estate mansion
Atlantic City Atlantic South Jersey Odditorium
Risley Homestead Atlantic South Jersey Historic house website, 1790 cottage, operated by the Atlantic County Historical Society
Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts Cumberland South Jersey Art website, community nonprofit arts center with four gallery spaces
Somerset Skylands Region Living Also known as Judge John Berrien Mansion, preserved and interpreted as the headquarters of George Washington in 1783
Burlington Delaware River Region Industry website, located at former John A. Roebling's Sons Company steel mill
Rosenkrans Museum Sussex Skylands Region Local history website, operated by the Walpack Historical Society
Atlantic South Jersey Local history website, operated by the Egg Harbor City Historical Society
New Brunswick Middlesex Gateway Region Natural history Exhibits on geology and anthropology, with an emphasis on the natural history of New Jersey
Warren Skylands Region Historic house 20th-century mansion, also community culture center
Salem County Historical Society Delaware River Region Historic houses website, four interconnected historic houses, the centerpiece of which is 1721 Alexander Grant's Mansion House, with exhibits including Salem in the Revolutionary War and Wistarburg Glass
Cape May South Jersey Local history Area Russian Jewish immigrants, local history and culture
Hunterdon Skylands Region Historic house 1756 house with history programs, also known as Fleming Castle
Scansen173 Princeton Junction MercerDelaware River Region Art website, 112 abstract and surreal sculptures, installations, assemblages, pond, bridge, wellness trails,300 elderly trees, and a Zen garden,
Schoolhouse Museum RidgewoodBergenGateway RegionLocal Historyhttps://ridgewoodhistoricalsociety.org/1 room schoolhouse built in 1872 that was turned into a museum for the history of the village of Ridgewood and holds many Revolutionary War artifacts.
Wayne Passaic Gateway Region Historic house Operated by the Wayne Township Parks and Recreation Department, 1695 colonial house
Morristown Morris Skylands Region Historic house website, also known as the Jabez Campfield House, operated by the Morristown chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution; 1760 four bedroom, Georgian style house
Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center Cumberland South Jersey Local history website, history of Seabrook Farms Company and its diverse workers: relocated Japanese Americans and Japanese Peruvians from the U.S. internment camps, wartime refugees from Europe, migrant laborers from Appalachia, the Deep South, and the Caribbean
Sea Girt Lighthouse Sea Girt Monmouth Shore Region Maritime Tours of the lighthouse and keeper's house
Sea Isle City Historical Museum Cape May South Jersey Local history website, located in the Sea Isle City branch of the Cape May County Library
Warren Skylands Region Historic house Operated by the Warren County Cultural & Heritage Commission, restored 18th-century stone mansion
Ringwood Passaic Gateway Region Historic house Located in Ringwood State Park, 1920s forty-four-room English Jacobean mansion, open one Sunday a month, 96-acre (390,000 m2) botanical garden
Skylands Museum of ArtLafayetteSussexSkylands RegionArtwebsite Skylands Museum of Art is dedicated to the collection and display of works of sculpture and painting that express the human spirit, imagination and history of fantasy. [27]
Morris Skylands Region Historic house website, 18th-century period house, operated by the Roxbury Township Historical Society
Silverball Museum Monmouth Shore Region Amusement website, pinball museum and arcade
Burlington Delaware River Region Historic house website, Operated by the Historical Society of Moorestown
Snowmobile Barn Museum SussexSkylands Region Transportation website, collection of over 300 sleds along with toys, ornaments, jewelry, advertisements
HunterdonSkylands Region Multiple website, early Hunterdon history, environmental and cultural center, operated by the Union Forge Heritage Association in the 1760 Joseph Turner House
Somers Point Historical Museum Atlantic South Jersey Local history website, operated by the Somers Point Historical Society
Somerville Somerset Skylands Region Firefighting Old fire engines and memorabilia
South Jersey Museum Gloucester Delaware River Region History website, includes Precolumbian Native American artifacts, Colonial items, the Pine Barrens, antique tools and equipment, area political history, farmsteads
Sussex Skylands RegionMultiple Zoo with over 500 animals, museum includes antique cars, motorcycles, carriages and wagons, exhibits about Eskimos, Fluorescent minerals, weapons and rifles, tool barn, dolls and toys, blacksmith shop, miniature circus, train set, Native American arrowheads and artifacts, farm machinery
Spring Lake Historical Society Museum Monmouth Shore Region Local history website
Stafford Township Heritage Park Ocean Shore Region Open air website, operated by the Stafford Township Historical Society, includes a historic church, store, railroad station, cottage, and 2 cemeteries
Jersey City Hudson Gateway Region History Accessible by boat from Liberty State Park, includes the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island and Ellis Island and its immigration museum
Steamboat Dock Museum Monmouth Shore Region Local history website, operated by the Keyport Historical Society, exhibits include plantation century, docks and shipping, steamboat building, oyster industry and other local companies
Stedman Gallery Camden Camden Delaware River Region Art website, part of the Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts at Rutgers–Camden
Ogdensburg Sussex Skylands Region Geology Underground zinc mine and Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence
Monmouth Shore Region Biographical website, home of author Stephen Crane
Morris Skylands Region Historic house Craftsman-style home of Gustav Stickley
Stillwater Historical Museum Sussex Skylands Region Local history website, located in an old school house, operated by the Historical Society of Stillwater Township
Stone Harbor Museum Cape May South Jersey Local history website, open seasonally
Stone Museum Middlesex Gateway Region Geology website, minerals, fossils, tools, fluorescent minerals room
Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM) Somerset Skylands Region African American website, located in a historic AME church, state and local African American history and culture
Sussex County Art & Heritage Council Gallery Sussex Skylands Region Art website
Middlesex Gateway Region Technology Also known as Menlo Park Museum, showcases many of the inventions of Thomas Edison
Essex Gateway Region Technology, historic house 29 room Queen Ann-style mansion home of Thomas Edison and laboratory
Middlesex Gateway Region Local history website Run by the Madison–Old Bridge Township Historical Society
Toms River Maritime Museum Toms River Ocean Shore Region Maritime website, operated by the Toms River Seaport Society
Township of Hamilton Historical Society Museum Atlantic South Jersey Local history website
Township of Lebanon Museum at New Hampton Hunterdon Skylands Region School website, 19th-century period schoolhouse
Township of Ocean Historical Museum Monmouth Shore Region Local history website
Union Gateway Region Natural history Museum exhibits include mammals and birds of the Watchung Reservation, taxidermy and fluorescent minerals
Trenton Mercer Delaware River Region Multiple Located in the Ellarslie Mansion in Cadwalader Park, includes contemporary art, decorative arts, industrial memorabilia and area historical objects
Ocean Shore Region Maritime Working maritime village with decoy carvers, boat builders, basket makers and baymen; formerly known as the Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum
Somerset Skylands Region Sports Golf memorabilia and artifacts
Princeton Mercer Delaware River Region Farm website, operated by the Historical Society of Princeton
Van Harlingen Historical Society Farm Museum Montgomery Somerset Skylands Region Agriculture
Somerset Skylands Region Historic house 19th-century Victorian farmhouse, open for events, operated by the Meadows Foundation
Warren Skylands Region Historic house Operated by the Harmony Township Historical Society, historic farmstead buildings dating to the 18th century
Wayne Passaic Gateway Region Historic house Operated by the Wayne Township Parks and Recreation Department, 1876 Dutch colonial house, also location of Van Duyne House
Sussex Skylands Region Historic house Operated by the Chinkchewunska Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, late 18th-century period house
Vernon Township Historical Society Museum Skylands Region Local history website
Monmouth Shore Region History History of the Vietnam war
Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society MuseumCumberland South Jersey History website, collections focus on 19th- and 20th-century regional history
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey Summit Union Gateway Region Art website, includes 3 galleries and a sculpture park
Freehold TownshipMonmouth Shore Region Historic house and community garden website, Headquarters for the Freehold Township Heritage Society. It is the oldest farmstead in the state.
Somerville Somerset Skylands Region Historic house website, 1775 Georgian-style house adjacent to Old Dutch Parsonage, served as the headquarters of General George Washington during the second Middlebrook encampment (winter of 1778–79)
Walsh Gallery Essex Gateway Region Art website, part of Seton Hall University
Camden Camden Delaware River Region Biographical Home of poet Walt Whitman
Warren County Historical Society Museum Warren Skylands Region Local history website, period rooms, Warren County memorabilia, antiques, textiles and folk art
Mercer Delaware River Region Multiple Includes Washington Crossing Visitor Center Museum about the American Revolution, the Johnson Ferry House, a historic house museum, the Washington Crossing State Park Nature Center and an observatory
Washington Township Historical Society Museum Morris Skylands Region Local history website
Sussex Skylands Region Transportation website, Canal Society of New Jersey headquarters and museum, Morris Canal, National Registered Historic Site in Allamuchy Mountain State Park
West Milford Museum Passaic Gateway Region Local history website
Newark Essex Gateway Region Science Contains items developed and manufactured by inventor Edward Weston
Westwood Museum Bergen Gateway Region Local history website, operated by the Westwood Heritage Society; located in the Westwood Train Station
Cape May South Jersey Natural history Birds, animals and ecosystem of the surrounding wetlands
Cumberland South Jersey Art Houses Museum of Glass
Morris Skylands Region Transportation - Railroad Railroad cars and memorabilia
Middlesex Gateway Region Local history website
Trenton Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house 1719 house built for founder of Trenton, has served several times as the Governor's House
Woodruff Museum of Indian Artifacts Bridgeton Cumberland South Jersey Native American website, over 20,000 artifacts related to the Lenni-Lenape Tribe, located in the Bridgeton Free Public Library
Bergen Gateway Region Agriculture Old-world Dutch barn and farm exhibits
Passaic Gateway Region Sports Permanent and rotating exhibits about baseball, Yankee history, and Yogi Berra, located on the campus of Montclair State University
New Brunswick Middlesex Gateway Region Art Part of Rutgers University, strengths in Russian and Soviet art, French 19th-century and American 19th- and 20th-century art, contemporary prints

Defunct museums

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Facebook site. John T. Brennan Fire Museum. 9 November 2015.
  2. Web site: Directory of Historic Morris County. Morris County Heritage Commission. 10 November 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150901070238/http://www.morriscountynj.gov/mchc/directory/directory-archives-organizations.asp. 1 September 2015. dead.
  3. Web site: Museums. Ocean County, New Jersey. 10 November 2015.
  4. Web site: Our Buildings. Van Harlingen Historical Society. 11 November 2015. 2013-01-25.
  5. Web site: The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills.
  6. Web site: Brigantine History Museum. Brigantine Beach, NJ. 6 November 2015.
  7. Web site: Museums of Hunterdon County. Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission. 9 November 2015.
  8. Web site: Official site. Discovery Seashell Museum and Shell Yard. 8 November 2015.
  9. Web site: Historical Committee. Eatontown, NJ. 9 November 2015.
  10. Web site: Facebook site. Gloucester County Police Museum. 9 November 2015.
  11. Web site: Hope Museum. NJ Skylands. 11 November 2015.
  12. Web site: New petition pushes for troubled Jersey City Museum to 'reopen'. The Jersey Journal. 9 November 2015. August 19, 2015.
  13. Web site: The Jim and Mary Lee Museum. Morris Canal Greenway. 11 November 2015.
  14. Web site: Jim Lee and the Morris Canal - House On A Hill. NJ Skylands. 11 November 2015.
  15. Web site: Official site. Linwood Historical Society. 6 November 2015.
  16. Web site: Facebook site. Keyport Fire Museum & Education Center. 9 November 2015.
  17. Web site: Waretown Historical Society. Township of Ocean. 10 November 2015.
  18. Web site: History of Longport. Longport, NJ. 6 November 2015.
  19. Web site: Margate Library and Historical Society Alliance: Evolving for the Future to Preserve the Past. Margate Public Library. 6 November 2015.
  20. Web site: Mead-Van Duyne House . The Wayne Museum.
  21. Web site: Historical Society – Montville Township Museum . Montville Township, New Jersey.
  22. Web site: The Museum Of White Township. NJ Skylands. 11 November 2015.
  23. https://web.archive.org/web/20090330173621/http://www.co.cumberland.nj.us/content/171/217/844.aspx information
  24. Web site: The Northfield Museum and Casto House. City of Northfield. 6 November 2015.
  25. Web site: Olde Stone House Historic Village . Washington Township Historic Preservation Commission.
  26. Web site: Kayla Sabatini. Prospertown Schoolhouse. Intro to American Studies – Monument Project. 10 November 2015. December 20, 2010.
  27. Web site: New museum features modern art . 2024-01-13 . www.townshipjournal.com . en-US.
  28. Web site: Fort Monmouth museum to begin new chapter . The Hub . 12 January 2014 . dead . https://archive.today/20140112143600/http://hub.gmnews.com/news/2010-07-15/Front_Page/Fort_Monmouth_museum_to_begin_new_chapter.html . 12 January 2014 .
  29. Web site: APG receives Fort Monmouth museum displays. United States Army. 12 January 2014.
  30. Web site: asburyboardwalk.com . Asbury Park Boardwalk website information . Asburyboardwalk.com . 2012-02-19.
  31. http://www.beyondthepalace.com/newjersey/rnr.html Information and photos of the Asbury Park Rock 'N Roll Museum
  32. Web site: Palace Amusements online site . Palaceamusements.com . 2004-05-26 . 2012-02-19.
  33. Web site: Charles & Anna Hankins Museum. Toms River Seaport Society Maritime Museum. 10 November 2015.
  34. Web site: As of June 2, 2012 the Community Children's Museum will be closing down.. Community Children's Museum. 12 January 2014.
  35. Web site: Flemington Children's Choir School. Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission. 9 November 2015.
  36. Web site: Home page. Metz Bicycle Museum. Unfortunately the Museum has Permanently Closed Due to the Passing of David Metz On April 17, 2013 Thank you to all who have enjoyed the museum over the years, and to all of his friends --- remember David Kindly..
  37. 10.1038/35038234. 11057635. Anger as Princeton closes 'inspirational' museum. Nature. 407. 6806. 825. 2000. Dalton. Rex. 2000Natur.407..825D. free.
  38. Web site: Daily Princetonian, Oct. 13, 2000, Princeton to relocate tiger skeletons from natural history museum to Frist center . Dailyprincetonian.com . 2000-10-13 . 2012-02-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150518211544/http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2000/10/princeton-to-relocate-tiger-skeletons-from-natural-history-museum-to-frist-center/ . 2015-05-18 .
  39. Web site: Union Forge Heritage Association may vacate Solitude House museum October 24. Published July 10, 2012. NJ.com. 12 January 2014. 2012-07-10.
  40. Web site: South Jersey Railroad Museum @Tuckahoe ... Closed !. Published March 24, 2010. Biglitterr. 12 January 2014. 2010-03-24.
  41. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3697/is_200403/ai_n9382641 Mercer Business, Mar 01, 2004, new store to be located in the location of the former Wonder Museum

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