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| [[Monmouth County Historical Association Museum]] || || [[Freehold Borough, New Jersey|Freehold]] || [[Shore Region]] || Local history || [http://www.monmouthhistory.org/index.php website], art, furniture, ceramics, textiles, military artifacts
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| [[Monmouth Museum]] || || [[Lincroft, New Jersey|Lincroft]] || [[Shore Region]] || Multiple || [http://www.monmouthmuseum.org/ website], art, cultural history and science, children's wing and planetarium, located on the campus of [[Brookdale Community College]]
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| [[Montclair Art Museum]] ||[[File:MAM.JPG|100px]] || [[Montclair, New Jersey|Montclair]] || [[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

Revision as of 03:54, 11 September 2010

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.

To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order.

Name Image Location Region Area of study Summary
Absecon Historical Society Museum Absecon South Jersey Local history website, planned museum in Howlett Hall
Absecon Light File:106548pv.jpg Atlantic City South Jersey Lighthouse Lighthouse and local history museum
Acorn Hall Morristown Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the Morris County Historical Society, 1853 Victorian Italianate mansion with changing exhibits on local history
African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey Newtonville South Jersey African American website
African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers Tenafly Gateway Region Art website, African art, operated by the Society of African Missions
Afro-American Historical and Cultural Society Museum Jersey City Gateway Region African American website, New Jersey African American history and African artifacts
AIDS Museum Newark Gateway Region Medical Planned museum
Air Victory Museum Mount Laurel Delaware River Region Aviation website
A. J. Meerwald Museum ship Delaware Bay oyster dredgeboat built in 1928
Albus Cavus New Brunswick Gateway Region Art Contemporary art gallery
Allaire Village Wall Shore Region Living 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
Allen House (Shrewsbury, New Jersey) Shrewsbury Shore Region Historic house website, operated by the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum, 1710 tavern house
American Hungarian Museum Passaic Gateway Region Ethnic website, also known as Hungarian Folklore Museum, decorated eggs, lace, pottery, traditional clothing
American Indian Heritage Museum Westampton Township Delaware River Region Native American website, American Indian history and culture, operated by the Powhatan Renape Nation
American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark Haledon Gateway Region History website, Victorian house with period rooms, labor exhibits, labor and immigrant library; historic meeting site for silk mill workers
Army Communications, Radar, and Electronics Museum Fort Monmouth Shore Region Technology website, history of Fort Monmouth and the development of military communications, radars and sensors
Atlantic City Art Center Atlantic City South Jersey Art website
Atlantic City Historical Museum Atlantic City South Jersey Local history website
Atlantic Heritage Center Somers Point South Jersey Local history website, household items and decorative arts, fine arts, weaponry, maritime artifacts and toys
Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey Teterboro Gateway Region Transportation - Aerospace New Jersey's aviation and space heritage
Avalon Museum and Historical Society Avalon South Jersey Local history website
Bainbridge House Princeton Delaware River Region Local history website, headquarters and museum for the Historical Society of Princeton
Bayonne Community Museum Bayonne Gateway Region Local history under development as facility is restored
Barclay Farmstead Museum Cherry Hill Delaware River Region Historic house website, 1816 furnished farmhouse on 32 acres (130,000 m2) with trails, living history programs
Barnegat Historic Heritage Village Barnegat Light 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 Historical Society Museum Barnegat Light Shore Region Local history website, located in 1903 schoolhouse, includes Edith Duff Gwinn Garden
Barnegat Light Barnegat Light Shore Region Lighthouse Lighthouse and museum interpretive center
Barret Museum Highland Lakes Skylands Region Historic house website, information, operated by the Vernon Township Historical Society; also known as High Breeze Farm
Batsto Village Hammonton 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
Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial Camden Delaware River Region Museum Ship USS New Jersey (BB-62)
Beavertown Historical Society Museum Lincoln Park Skylands Region Local history website
Belskie Museum of Art & Science Closter Gateway Region Art website, works of sculptor Abram Belskie and 10 changing exhibitions each year
Benjamin Temple House Ewing Township Delaware River Region Local history website, operated by the Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society
Bergen Museum (New Jersey) Paramus Gateway Region Multiple website, art and science, located at the Bergen Mall
Berkeley Historical Museum Bayville Shore Region Local history information
Boonton Historical Society and Museum Boonton Skylands Region Local history website, located in the Colonial Revival and Victorian Gothic styles house of Dr. John L. Taylor
Boxwood Hall Elizabeth Gateway Region Historic house Home from 1772 to 1795 of Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress
Brigantine Beach Historical Museum & Society Brigantine Beach South Jersey Local history website
Bridgeton Hall of Fame All Sports Museum Bridgeton South Jersey Hall of fame - sports information
Buccleuch Mansion New Brunswick Gateway Region Historic house Operated by the Jersey Blue chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Burlington County Historical Society Museums Burlington City 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 County Prison Mount Holly Delaware River Region Prison Operated by Burlington County Parks and the Prison Museum Association
Butler Museum Butler Skylands Region Local history website, located in an old railroad station
Clarke House Museum Princeton Delaware River Region Historic house Revolutionary period home located in Princeton Battlefield State Park
Califon Historical Society Station Museum Califon Skylands Region Railroad website
Camden County Historical Society Museum Camden Delaware River Region Local history website, includes 19th century domestic, farm and workplace tools, one room schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, antique vehicles
Camp Olden Civil War Round Table and Museum Hamilton Delaware River Region History website, Civil War and Native American exhibits
Cape May County Historical Museum Cape May Court House South Jersey Historic house website, furnishings, costumes, tools, decorative and practical objects from the 17th to 20th centuries, including Native American and maritime exhibits
Carter House Summit Gateway Region Historic house website, home of the Summit Historical Society
Center for the Arts in Southern New Jersey Marlton Delaware River Region Art website
Charles and Anna Hankins Museum Lavallette Shore Region Maritime website, museum displays of wooden boats in storage while seeking new home
Children's Museum of Somerset County Bridgewater Skylands Region Children's website
Church of the Presidents (New Jersey) Long Branch Shore Region Historic church Former Episcopal chapel on the Jersey Shore where seven United States presidents worshiped
Collings-Knight House Collingswood Delaware River Region Historic house website, operated by the Friends of Collings-Knight House
Colonial House Museum 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
Community Children's Museum Dover Skylands Region Children's website
Cooper Mill Chester Township Skylands Region Mill website, operated by the Morris County Park Commission
Cornelius Low House File:Low 100 0915.jpg Piscataway Gateway Region Local history Also known as Cornelius Low House / Middlesex County Museum, changing exhibits of state and local history
Country Living Museum Hopewell Township South Jersey History website, 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
Covenhoven House Freehold Shore Region Historic house website, operated by the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum, served as headquarters for British General Sir Henry Clinton before the Battle of Monmouth in 1778
Craftsman Farms Parsipanny Skylands Region Historic house Craftsman-style home of Gustav Stickley
Cranbury Museum Cranbury Gateway Region Local history website, operated by the Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society
Crane House and Museum Montclair Gateway Region Historic house Operated by the Montclair Historical Society, Federal mansion with 18th & 19th century furnishings
Cumberland County Prehistorical Museum Greenwich Township, Cumberland County South Jersey Archaeology information, operated by the Cumberland County Historical Society, stone and bone artifacts, pottery, native crafts, fossils
Darlington Schoolhouse Mahwah Gateway Region Local history website, headquarters for the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference
Delaware Bay Museum Bivalve South Jersey Maritime website, operated by the Bayshore Discovery Project
Dennis Township Museum and History Center Dennis Township South Jersey Local history website
Denville Historical Society & Museum Denville Skylands Region Local history
Dey Mansion Wayne Gateway Region Historic house website, more information and photos, General George Washington’s revolutionary war headquarters in the Preakness Valley
Discovery Shell Museum Ocean City Shore Region Natural history website, retail store with museum display of over 10,000 species of seashells from all over the world
Dover History Museum Dover Skylands Region Local history website, operated by the Dover Area Historical Society
Drake House Museum Plainfield Gateway Region Local history website, operated by the Historical Society of Plainfield
Drumthwacket Princeton Delaware River Region Historic house Official residence of the Governor of New Jersey, built in 1835
East Brunswick Museum East Brunswick Gateway Region Local history website, operated by the East Brunswick Historical Society
East Jersey Olde Towne Village Piscataway Gateway Region Open air website, includes church, tavern, schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, barracks and several homes
Edison National Historic Site West Orange Gateway Region Historic house 29 room Queen Ann-style mansion home of Thomas Edison and laboratory (under renovation)
Ellis Island Jersey City Gateway Region History Museum of immigration; ferry boats depart from Liberty State Park
Ely House Museum Hightstown Delaware River Region Historic house website, operated by the Hightstown-East Windsor Historical Society
Emlen Physick Estate Cape May South Jersey Living Victorian mansion, operated by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts
Evergreens (New Jersey) Montclair Gateway Region Historic house website, operated by the Montclair Historical Society, 1896 home with synthesis of styles popular in the last quarter of the 19th century
Firehouse Gallery Bordentown Delaware River Region Art Focuses on work of artist Eric Gibbons
Fleetwood Museum of Art and Photographica North Plainfield Skylands Region Photography website, cameras, photographic equipment, art and science of photography
Fleming Castle Museum Flemington Skylands Region Historic house website, 1756 house with history programs
Fort Dix Military Museum Fort Dix Delaware River Region Military website
Fort Lee Historic Park Fort Lee Gateway Region Military website, American Revolution fort site, center has exhibits about the fort
Fort Lee Museum Fort Lee Gateway Region Local history website, look under Departments, information, operated by the Fort Lee Historical Society, located in the 1922 Judge Moore House, adjacent to Monument Park
Foster-Armstrong House Montague Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the Montague Association for Restoration of Community History
Fosterfields Living Historical Farm Morris Township 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
Franklin Mineral Museum Franklin Skylands Region Natural history website, over 4000 mineral specimens with a large display of fluorescent minerals, mine replica, fossils, Native American artifacts
Garden State Discovery Museum Cherry Hill Delaware River Region Children's website
Garretson Forge & Farm Fair Lawn Gateway Region Living website, living Dutch farm museum
George F. Boyer Historical Museum Wildwood South Jersey Local history website, operated by the Wildwood Historical Society, includes National Marbles Hall of Fame, information and photos
George Segal Gallery Montclair Gateway Region Art website, part of Montclair State University
Gibbon House Museum Greenwich Township, Cumberland County South Jersey Historic house information, 1730 furnished house, barn museum with 18th century tools, doctor's office, Swedish granary log building
Giffordtown Schoolhouse Museum Little Egg Harbor Township Shore Region Local history website, operated by the Tuckerton Historical Society, Tuckerton Wireless, telephone equipment, Native American artifacts, railroad, maritime, area businesses and industries
Greenfield Hall Haddonfield Delaware River Region Local history website, 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 1700s, pottery exhibit, doll and toy collection, tool museum
Griffth Morgan House Pennsauken Township Delaware River Region Historic house website, 1715 stone house, open for special events, 3rd floor museum of local history
Grover Cleveland Birthplace Caldwell Gateway Region Presidential home website, Cleveland artifacts from 1830s to 1850s
Grounds for Sculpture Hamilton Township Delaware River Region Art 35-acre (140,000 m2) sculpture park and indoor art gallery
Hackettstown Historical Society Museum Hackettstown Skylands Region Local history website
Hamilton-Van Wagoner House Museum Clifton Gateway Region Historic house website, operated by the City of Clifton, 18th century Dutch farmhouse with rooms decorated in many different period styles
Hammonton Arts Center Hammonton South Jersey Art website
Havens Homestead Museum Brick Shore Region Historic house website, information, operated by the Brick Township Historical Society
Hereford Inlet Light Wildwood South Jersey Lighthouse Victorian style keepers house and lighthouse
Heritage Glass Museum Glassboro Delaware River Region Glass information, information
The Hermitage (New Jersey) Ho-Ho-Kus Gateway Region Historic house 18th century Gothic revival home
Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum Oradell Gateway Region Art website, wildlife art
Historical Society of Bloomfield Museum Bloomfield Gateway Region Local history website, located in the children's wing of the Bloomfield Public Library
Historical Society of Moorestown Moorestown Delaware River Region Local history website, located in the Smith-Cadbury Mansion
Historic Cold Spring Village Cape May South Jersey Living website, Early American (1790-1840) open-air living history museum, open late May through mid September
Historic Longstreet Farm Holmdel Shore Region Living website, 1890s living historical farm located in Holmdel Park
Historic Speedwell Morristown 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
Historic Walnford Upper Freehold Shore Region Open air website, 1754 farm home, operating 19th century gristmill and farm buildings on 36 acres (150,000 m2)
Hoboken Historical Museum Hoboken Gateway Region Local history website
Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead Museum Lambertville 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
Holmes-Hendrickson House Holmdel Shore Region Historic house website, operated by the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum, 1754 Dutch farm house
Hope Historical Society Museum Hope Skylands Region Local history information
Hopewell Museum Hopewell Delaware River Region Local history information
Howell Living History Farm Lambertville Skylands Region Agriculture website, facility of the Mercer County Park Commission; 1900 living farm museum
Hungarian Heritage Center New Brunswick Gateway Region Ethnic - Hungarian website, operated by the American Hungarian Foundation
Hunterdon Museum of Art Clinton Skylands Region Art website, contemporary art and design
Hunter-Lawrence-Jessup House Woodbury Delaware River Region Local history website, operated by the Gloucester County Historical Society
Imagine That Discovery Museum for Children Florham Park Skylands Region Children's website
Indian King Tavern Museum Haddonfield Delaware River Region Historic tavern website, more information, built in 1750, site where New Jersey was legally created
Infoage Science/History Learning Center Wall Township Shore Region Multiple Science, history; located at Camp Evans, includes National Broadcasters Hall of Fame, New Jersey shipwrecks, military electronics,
Insectropolis Toms River Shore Region Natural history website, live and mounted insects, interactive exhibits
Ireland Hoffer House Williamstown Gateway Region Historic house website, operated by the Monroe Township Historical Society
Island Heights Cottage Museum Island Heights Shore Region Historic house website, information, operated by the Island Heights Cultural & Heritage Association
Jack Allen Memorial Country Living Museum Southampton Delaware River Region History website, information and photos, country store, bank display, farm and country artifacts
Jacobus Vanderveer House & Museum Bedminster Township Skylands Region Historic house website, 18th century Dutch frame house associated with the Pluckemin encampment of 1778-79
James Wilson Marshall House Lambertville Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the Lambertville Historical Society
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum New Brunswick 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
Jersey City Museum Jersey City Gateway Region Art American visual art and material culture
Jersey Explorer Children's Museum East Orange Gateway Region Children's website
Jersey Shore Children's Museum Egg Harbor South Jersey Children's website
Jewish Historical Society of MetroWest Whippany Skylands Region Ethnic - Jewish website, history exhibits about the Jewish communities of Essex, Morris, Sussex and portions of northern Union counties of New Jersey
Jewish Museum of New Jersey Newark Gateway Region history and culture website Oldest synagogue in continuous use in Newark, exhibitions
Jim and Mary Lee Museum Phillipsburg Skylands Region History information, information, site of Morris Canal Plane 9 West, canal buildings and turbine
Jim Kirk Maritime Museum Linwood South Jersey Maritime website, information, operated by the Linwood Historical Society, ship models, maritime displays
John Abbot House Hamilton Delaware River Region Historic house information, look under Hamilton's History, 1730 colonial house
John Ballantine House Newark Gateway Region Historic house Part of the Newark Museum
John DuBois Maritime Museum Greenwich Township, Cumberland County South Jersey Maritime website, operated by the Cumberland County Historical Society by appointment, builders' models of local craft, tools, blocks, riggings
Kearney House Alpine Gateway Region Historic house website, 18th century house, also known as Blackledge-Kearney House or Cornwallis Headquarters; part of the New Jersey portion of the Palisades Interstate Park
Kearney Museum Kearney Gateway Region Local history website, located in the Kearney Public Library
Keyport Fire Museum Keyport Shore Region Firefighting website, fire department history and fire prevention
King Store & Homestead Museum Ledgewood Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the Roxbury Historic Trust
Kuser Farm Mansion Hamilton Delaware River Region Historic house website, information, information & photo
Lacey Schoolhouse Museum Forked River Shore Region Local history website, operated by the Lacey Historical Society
Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum Landing Skylands Region Local history website, located on the grounds of Hopatcong State Park
Lakehurst Historical Society Museum Lakehurst Shore Region Local history website, look under Historical Society, information
Lakewood Heritage Commission Museum Lakewood Shore Region Local history website, information
Lambert Castle Paterson Gateway Region Historic house website, operated by the Passaic County Historical Society, late 19th century period rooms and changing exhibits about Passaic County history
Latvian Ethnographic Museum Freehold Shore Region Ethnic website, folk costumes, hand woven belts and blankets, colorful knitted woolen mittens, jewelry
Leedsville School Museum Linwood South Jersey School website, operated by the Linwood Historical Society
"Lest We Forget" - Black Holocaust Museum of Slavery Lawnside Delaware River Region History website, private collection of slavery artifacts and Jim Crow memorabilia, available by appointment
Liberty Hall Museum Elizabeth Gateway Region Historic house Victorian style mansion, located at Kean University
Liberty Science Center Jersey City Gateway Region Science Located in Liberty State Park
Little Red Schoolhouse Museum Waretown Shore Region School information, operated by the Waretown Historical Society
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences Loveladies Shore Region Art website, free public art gallery
Long Beach Island Museum Beach Haven Shore Region Local history website, information, information, operated by the Long Beach Island Historical Association
Long Pond Ironworks State Park Hewitt Gateway Region Industry Includes Long Pond Ironworks Museum
Longport Museum Longport South Jersey Local history website, operated by the Longport Historical Society
Loveland Homestead Museum Bay Head Shore Region Historic house website, information, operated by the Bay Head Historical Society, 19th century period farmhouse
Macculloch Hall Historical Museum Morristown Skylands Region Historic house website, showcases 18th and 19th century American and English fine and decorative arts
Magnolia Historical Train Station Museum and Library Magnolia Delaware River Region Local history website
MacKenzie Museum Howell Shore Region Historic house website, operated by the Howell Historical Society
Margate Historical Society & Museum Margate South Jersey Local history website
Marine Mammal Stranding Center & Museum Atlantic City South Jersey Natural history website, wildlife rehabilitation center for marine animals, natural history museum
Marlpit Hall Middletown Shore Region Historic house website, operated by the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum, 1756 home that is a stop on the New Jersey Women's Heritage Trail
Meadowlands Museum Rutherford Gateway Region Local history Antique toys, rocks and minerals, period rooms, changing exhibits
Mead-Van Duyne Historic House Museum Wayne Gateway Region Historic house website, information, operated by the Wayne Township Parks and Recreation Department, 1740 stone Dutch colonial house, on the same property as the Van Riper-Hopper Historic House Museum
Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum Rahway Gateway Region Historic tavern website, early tavern life and stagecoach transportation
Metlar-Bodine House Piscataway Gateway Region Historic house Closed for renovations
Metz Bicycle Museum Freehold Shore Region Transportation website, antique bicycles, children's riding toys, kitchen and household gadgets, antique mousetraps, cast iron bottle cap openers, pencil sharpeners, antique cars, and more; open by appointment
Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts Cape May South Jersey Multiple website, operates Emlen Physick Estate, Cape May Light, Carriage House Gallery, tours and special events
Millbrook Village Blairstown Skylands Region Living website, information, located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, recreated turn-of-the-century village
Millburn-Short Hills Historical Society Museum Short Hills Gateway Region Local history website, located at the Short Hills train station
Miller-Cory House Westfield Gateway Region Living website, 18th century farmhouse with costumed docents demonstrating colonial crafts
Millville Army Airfield Museum Millville 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 County Historical Association Museum Freehold Shore Region Local history website, art, furniture, ceramics, textiles, military artifacts
Monmouth Museum Lincroft Shore Region Multiple website, art, cultural history and science, children's wing and planetarium, located on the campus of Brookdale Community College
Montclair Art Museum Montclair 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
Montville Township Historical Museum Montville Skylands Region Local history website
Morris Museum Morristown Skylands Region Multiple website, costumes and textiles, fine art, decorative art, dolls and toys, natural science, geology, paleontology, anthropology
Morris Plains Museum Morris Plains Skylands Region Local history website
Morristown National Historical Park Morristown Skylands Region History Three sites important during the American Revolution: the Ford Mansion, a historic house museum, Fort Nonsense and Jockey Hollow
Morven Museum & Garden Princeton 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 Middletown Shore Region Agriculture website, agriculture and horticulture exhibits
Mount Tabor Historical Society Museum Mount Tabor Skylands Region Local history website, located at the Short Hills train station
Museum of Early Trades & Crafts Madison Skylands Region History website, history and lifeways of ordinary people of pre-industrial New Jersey, including hand tools, products and household objects
Museum of New Jersey Maritime History Beach Haven Shore Region Maritime website
Museum of the Historical Society of Ocean Grove Ocean Grove 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 White Township White Township Skylands Region Local history information, operated by the White Township Historical Society
Nail House Museum Bridgeton South Jersey Local history information
Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum Lower Township South Jersey Aviation website, located at Cape May Airport, aircraft, engines, aviation artifacts, military memorabilia, aircraft engines and more housed in a 92,000-square-foot (8,500 m2) all-wooden hangar
Navesink Twin Lights Highlands Shore Region Lighthouse Lighthouse and museum
Navy Lakehurst Information Center Lakehurst 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
Nelden-Roberts Stonehouse Montague Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the Montague Association for Restoration of Community History
Newark Museum Newark Gateway Region Multiple Art, natural history, history; American art, decorative arts, and arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas and the ancient world; Newark Fire Museum, 1784 Old Stone Schoolhouse; planetarium, mini-zoo, natural science collections in geology and botany
New Egypt Museum New Egypt Shore Region Local history website, information, operated by the New Egypt Historical Society
New Jersey Children's Museum Paramus Gateway Region Children's website, for toddlers and preschoolers
New Jersey Firefighters Museum Boonton Skylands Region Firefighting website, part of the New Jersey Firemen's Home, exhibits include steamers, ornate hose carts and fire trucks
New Jersey Historical Society File:HistSoc.jpeg Newark Gateway Region History Museum collections include costumes, furniture, paintings, prints, ceramics, glass, tools and more, also houses library and archives
New Jersey Museum of Agriculture North Brunswick Gateway Region Agriculture website, past, present and future of agriculture in New Jersey
New Jersey Museum of Boating Point Pleasant Shore Region Maritime website
New Jersey Naval Museum Hackensack Gateway Region Maritime Home of USS Ling (SS-297), a World War II submarine
New Jersey State House Trenton Delaware River Region State capitol
New Jersey State Museum Trenton Delaware River Region Multiple website, archaeology/ethnology, cultural history, fine art and natural history
New Jersey State Police Museum and Learning Center West Trenton Delaware River Region Law enforcement website
New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center Phillipsburg Skylands Region Transportation website, historic bus and trolley collection, planned museum
New Sweden Farmstead Museum Bridgeton South Jersey Open air information, information, reproduction of a 17th century farmstead of the type built by early Swedish Finnish colonists
Newton Fire Museum Newton Skylands Region Firefighting website
Northfield Museum and Casto House Northfield South Jersey Local history information, located in Birch Grove Park
Northlandz Flemington Skylands Region Multiple website, miniature railway with 8 miles (13 km) of track, a 94-room dollhouse, doll museum, music hall, art gallery and Raritan River Railway steam train ride
Noyes Museum of Art Oceanville South Jersey Art website
Nutley Museum Nutley Gateway Region Local history website, operated by the Nutley Historical Society, includes Annie Oakley memorabilia, general store, toys and local history artifacts
Obadiah Latourette Grist and Saw Mill Washington Township Skylands Region Mill website, operated by the Washington Township Land Trust
Ocean City Arts Center Ocean City Shore Region Art website, monthly art exhibits
Ocean City Historical Museum Ocean City Shore Region Local history website, located in Ocean City's Community and Cultural Center
Ocean County Museum Toms River Shore Region Historic house website, information, Victorian period Pierson Sculthorpe House with period rooms, exhibits on local history
Ocean Gate Museum Ocean Gate Shore Region Railroad website, information, Victorian period Pierson Sculthorpe House with period rooms, exhibits on local history
Old Ardena Schoolhouse Howell Shore Region School website, operated by the Howell Historical Society
Old Barracks Museum Trenton Delaware River Region History American colonial life and the American Revolution
Old Dutch Parsonage Somerville Skylands Region Historic house Adjacent to the Wallace House
Old Monroe Schoolhouse Hardyston Township Skylands Region School website
Old Schoolhouse and Firehouse Museum Ogdensburg Skylands Region School website, open by appointment by the Ogdensburg Historical Society
Pascack Historical Society Museum Park Ridge Gateway Region Local history website, also known as the John C. Storms Museum
Paterson Museum Paterson Gateway Region Local history website, cultural, industrial, technological, and geological history of Paterson; home of Fenian Ram submarine
Paul Robeson Galleries Newark Gateway Region Art Part of Rutgers University
Paulsdale Mount Laurel Delaware River Region Biographical Home of suffragette Alice Paul
Pennsville Township Historical Society Museum Pennsville Township Delaware River Region Local history website
Pequannock Museum Pompton Plains Skylands Region Local history website
Perkins Center for the Arts Collingswood Delaware River Region Art website, visual and performing arts classes and lessons, exhibitions, music and dance performances, workshops, visiting artists' residencies and an outreach program
Perkins Center for the Arts Moorestown Delaware River Region Art website, visual and performing arts classes and lessons, exhibitions, music and dance performances, workshops, visiting artists' residencies and an outreach program
Peter Mott House Lawnside Delaware River Region History website, operated by the Lawnside Historical Society; station house along the Underground Railroad
Phillipsburg Historical Society Phillipsburg Skylands Region Local history website, library, museum and office
Phillipsburg Railroad Historians Museum Phillipsburg Skylands Region Railroad website
Point Pleasant Historical Society Museum Point Pleasant Shore Region Local history website, information
Pomona Hall Camden Delaware River Region Historic house website, operated by the Camden County Historical Society, 18th century decorated mansion
Princeton University Art Museum Princeton Delaware River Region Art Mediterranean regions, Western Europe, China, United States, and Latin America
Printmaking Council of New Jersey Somerville Skylands Region Art website, classes, workshops and gallery with changing exhibits of prints
Proprietary House Perth Amboy Gateway Region Historic house website, commissioned by the Proprietors of East Jersey to be the official residence of the Royal Governor William Franklin
Prospertown Schoolhouse Museum Jackson Shore Region School information, open by appointment
Ralston General Store Ralston Skylands Region Historic store website, operated by the Ralston Historical Association, 1785 general store and post office
Randolph Museum Randolph Skylands Region Local history website, operated by the Historical Society of Old Randolph
Readington Township Museums Readington Township Skylands Region Multiple website, includes Bouman-Stickney Farmstead, the Eversole-Hall House, the Cold Brook School, Taylors Mill
Red Mill Museum Village Clinton Skylands Region Open air website, historic mill, local history exhibits
Ridgewood Schoolhouse Museum Ridgewood Gateway Region Local history website, operated by the Ridgewood Historical Society
Ringwood Manor Ringwood Gateway Region Historic house Located in Ringwood State Park, 19th & 20th century great estate mansion
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum Atlantic City South Jersey Odditorium
Risley Homestead Northfield South Jersey Historic house website, 1790 cottage, operated by the Atlantic Heritage Center
Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts Millville South Jersey Art website
Rockingham House Kingston Skylands Region Living Also known as Berrien Mansion, preserved and interpreted as the temporary residence of George and Martha Washington
Roebling Museum Roebling Delaware River Region Industry website, planned museum at former John A. Roebling's Sons Company steel mill
Roundhouse Museum Egg Harbor City South Jersey Local history website, operated by the Egg Harbor City Historical Society
Rutgers University Geology Museum New Brunswick Gateway Region Natural history website, exhibits on geology and anthropology, with an emphasis on the natural history of New Jersey
Salem County Historical Society Salem 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
Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage Woodbine South Jersey Local history website
Schuyler-Colfax Historic House Museum Wayne Gateway Region Historic house website, operated by the Wayne Township Parks and Recreation Department, 1695 colonial house
Schuyler-Hamilton House Morristown 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 & Cultural Center Seabrook 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 Isle City Historical Society Museum Sea Isle City South Jersey Local history website, open by appointment
Shore Institute for Contemporary Art Long Branch Shore Region Art
Skylands Manor Ringwood Gateway Region Historic house Located in Ringwood State Park, 1920s forty-four-room English Jacobean mansion
Shippen Manor Museum Oxford Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the Warren County Cultural & Heritage Commission, restored 18th Century stone mansion
Silas Riggs Saltbox House Ledgewood Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the Roxbury Township Historical Society
Snowmobile Barn Museum Fredon Skylands Region Transportation website, collection of over 300 sleds along with toys, ornaments, jewelry, advertisements
Solitude House Museum High Bridge Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the High Bridge Union Forge Heritage Association
Somers Point Historical Museum Somers Point South Jersey Local history website, operated by the Somers Point Historical Society
Somerville Fire Department Museum Somerville Skylands Region Firefighting website, old fire engines and memorabilia
South Jersey Museum of American History Glassboro Delaware River Region History information
South Jersey Railroad Museum Tuckahoe South Jersey Railroad website, model railroad displays
Space Farms Zoo and Museum Sussex Skylands Region Multiple 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 Spring Lake Shore Region Local history website
Stafford Township Heritage Park Stafford Township Shore Region Open air website, information, operated by the Stafford Township Historical Society
Steamboat Dock Museum Keyport 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 Delaware River Region Art website, part of the Rutgers Center for the Arts at Rutgers-Camden
Sterling Hill Mining Museum Ogdensburg Skylands Region Geology Underground zinc mine and Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence
Steven Crane House Museum Asbury Park South Jersey Biographical website, home of author Stephen Crane
Stillwater Township Historical Museum Stillwater Township Skylands Region Local history website, located in an old school house, operated by the Historical Society of Stillwater Township
Stone Harbor Museum Stone Harbor South Jersey Local history website
Stone Museum Monroe Township Geology website, minerals, fossils, tools, fluorescent minerals room
Sussex County Art & Heritage Council Newton Skylands Region Art website
Sussex County Historical Society Museum Newton Skylands Region Local history website, located in the Hill Memorial building
Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum Menlo Park Gateway Region Technology Also known as Menlo Park Museum, showcases many of the inventions of Thomas Edison
Toms River Maritime Museum Toms River Shore Region Maritime website, operated by the Toms River Seaport Society
Township of Hamilton Historical Society Museum Mays Landing South Jersey Local history website
Township of Lebanon Museum at New Hampton Hampton Skylands Region School website, information
Township of Ocean Historical Museum Oakhurst Shore Region Local history website
Trailside Nature & Science Center Mountainside Gateway Region Natural history website, museum exhibits include mammals and birds of the Watchung Reservation, taxidermy and fluorescent minerals
Trenton City Museum Trenton Delaware River Region Multiple website, located in the at the Ellarslie Mansion in Cadwalader Park; owned and maintained by Trenton city government; contemporary art, decorative arts, industrial memorabilia and historical objects
Tuckerton Seaport Tuckerton Shore Region Maritime website, working maritime village with decoy carvers, boat builders, basket makers and baymen; formerly known as the Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen’s Museum
United States Bicycling Hall of Fame Bridgewater Township Skylands Region Hall of fame Dedicated to preserving the sport of cycling
United States Golf Association Museum Far Hills Skylands Region Sports website, golf memorabilia and artifacts
Van Riper-Hopper Historic House Museum Wayne Gateway Region Historic house website, information, operated by the Wayne Township Parks and Recreation Department, 1876 Dutch colonial house, also location of Mead-Van Duyne Historic House Museum
Van Bunschooten Museum Wantage Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the Chinkchewunska Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey Summit Gateway Region Art website, includes 3 galleries and a sculpture park
Wallace House Somerville Skylands Region Historic house 1775 Georgian-style house adjacent to Old Dutch Parsonage
Walsh Gallery South Orange Gateway Region Art part of Seton Hall University
Walt Whitman House Camden Delaware River Region Biographical Home of poet Walt Whitman
Warren County Historical Society and Museum Belvidere Skylands Region Local history website, period rooms, Warren County memorabilia, antiques, textiles and folk art
Washington Crossing State Park Stanhope Skylands 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 Long Valley Skylands Region Local history website, website
Waterhouse Museum Toms River Shore Region Art Exhibits art of Charles Waterhouse, painter of military scenes from the American Revolutionary War to the present with a focus on the Marine Corps
Waterloo Village Stanhope Skylands Region National Registered Historic Site in Allamuchy Mountain State Park
West Milford Museum West Milford Local history website
Westwood Museum Westwood Gateway Region Local history website, operated by the Westwood Heritage Society; located in the Westwood Train Station
Wetlands Institute Stone Harbor South Jersey Natural history website
WheatonArts Millville South Jersey Art Houses Museum of Glass
Whippany Railway Museum Whippany Skylands Region Transportation - Railroad Railroad cars and memorabilia
William Trent House Trenton 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 South Jersey Native American website, over 20,000 artifacts related to the Lenni-Lenape Tribe, located in the Bridgeton Free Public Library
Wortendyke Barn Museum Park Ridge Gateway Region Agriculture website, information, old-world Dutch barn and farm exhibits
Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center Little Falls Gateway Region Sports website, houses permanent and rotating exhibits about baseball, Yankee history, and Yogi Berra

Defunct Museums

See also

Resources

References

  1. ^ http://www.asburyboardwalk.com/rockroll1.htm Asbury Park Boardwalk website information
  2. ^ http://www.beyondthepalace.com/newjersey/rnr.html Information and photos of the Asbury Park Rock 'N Roll Museum
  3. ^ http://www.palaceamusements.com/ Palace Amusements online site
  4. ^ http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v407/n6806/full/407825b0.html "Anger as Princeton closes 'inspirational' museum"
  5. ^ http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2000/10/13/news/1496.shtml?type=printable Daily Princetonian, Oct. 13, 2000, "Princeton to relocate tiger skeletons from natural history museum to Frist center"
  6. ^ 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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