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Revision as of 15:34, 30 July 2011

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 County Region Area of study Summary
Absecon Historical Society Museum Absecon Atlantic South Jersey Local history website, planned museum in Howlett Hall
Absecon Light Atlantic City Atlantic South Jersey Lighthouse Lighthouse and local history museum
Acorn Hall Morristown Morris Skylands Region Historic house 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 Atlantic South Jersey African American website
African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers Tenafly Bergen Gateway Region Art website, African art, operated by the Society of African Missions
Afro-American Historical and Cultural Society Museum Jersey City Hudson Gateway Region African American New Jersey African American history and African artifacts
AIDS Museum Newark Essex Gateway Region Medical Planned museum
Air Victory Museum Mount Laurel Burlington Delaware River Region Aviation website
A. J. Meerwald Commercial Township Cumberland South Jersey Museum ship Delaware Bay oyster dredgeboat built in 1928
Albus Cavus New Brunswick Middlesex Gateway Region Art Contemporary art gallery
Allaire Village Wall Monmouth 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 Monmouth Shore Region Historic house Operated by the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum, 1710 tavern house
American Hungarian Museum Passaic Passaic Gateway Region Ethnic website, also known as Hungarian Folklore Museum, decorated eggs, lace, pottery, traditional clothing
American Indian Heritage Museum Westampton Township Burlington 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 Passaic Gateway Region History 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 Monmouth Shore Region Technology website, history of Fort Monmouth and the development of military communications, radars and sensors
Atlantic City Art Center Atlantic City Atlantic South Jersey Art website
Atlantic City Historical Museum Atlantic City Atlantic South Jersey Local history website
Atlantic Heritage Center Somers Point Atlantic 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 Bergen Gateway Region Transportation - Aerospace New Jersey's aviation and space heritage
Avalon Museum and Historical Society Avalon Cape May South Jersey Local history website
Bainbridge House Princeton Mercer Delaware River Region Local history website, headquarters and museum for the Historical Society of Princeton
Bayonne Community Museum Bayonne Hudson Gateway Region Local history under development as facility is restored
Barclay Farmstead Museum Cherry Hill Camden Delaware River Region Historic house 1816 furnished farmhouse on 32 acres (130,000 m2) with trails, living history programs
Barnegat Historic Heritage Village Barnegat Light Ocean 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 Ocean Shore Region Local history Located in 1903 schoolhouse, includes Edith Duff Gwinn Garden
Barnegat Lighthouse Barnegat Light Ocean Shore Region Lighthouse Lighthouse and museum interpretive center
Barret Museum Highland Lakes Sussex Skylands Region Historic house website, information, operated by the Vernon Township Historical Society; also known as High Breeze Farm
Batsto Village Hammonton Atlantic 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 Camden Delaware River Region Museum Ship USS New Jersey (BB-62)
Beavertown Historical Society Museum Lincoln Park Morris Skylands Region Local history website
Belskie Museum of Art & Science Closter Bergen Gateway Region Art website, works of sculptor Abram Belskie and 10 changing exhibitions each year
Benjamin Temple House Ewing Township Mercer Delaware River Region Local history website, operated by the Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society
Bergen Museum of Art and Science Hackensack Bergen Gateway Region Multiple Art and science, classes
Berkeley Historical Museum Bayville Ocean Shore Region Local history information
Boonton Historical Society and Museum Boonton Morris Skylands Region Local history website, located in the Colonial Revival and Victorian Gothic styles house of Dr. John L. Taylor
Boxwood Hall Elizabeth Union Gateway Region Historic house Home from 1772 to 1795 of Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress
Brigantine Beach Historical Museum & Society Brigantine Beach Atlantic South Jersey Local history website
Bridgeton Hall of Fame All Sports Museum Bridgeton Cumberland South Jersey Hall of fame - sports information
Buccleuch Mansion New Brunswick Middlesex Gateway Region Historic house Operated by the Jersey Blue chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Burlington County Historical Society Museums Burlington City 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 County Prison Mount Holly Burlington Delaware River Region Prison Operated by Burlington County Parks and the Prison Museum Association
Butler Museum Butler Morris Skylands Region Local history Located in an old railroad station
Clarke House Museum Princeton Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house Revolutionary period home located in Princeton Battlefield State Park
Califon Historical Society Station Museum Califon Hunterdon Skylands Region Railroad website
Camden County Historical Society Museum Camden 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 Mercer Delaware River Region History website, Civil War and Native American exhibits
Cape May County Historical Museum Cape May Court House Cape May South Jersey History Furnishings, costumes, tools, decorative and practical objects from the 17th to 20th centuries, including Native American and maritime exhibits
Carter House (Summit, New Jersey) Summit Union Gateway Region Historic house website, home of the Summit Historical Society
Center for the Arts in Southern New Jersey Marlton Burlington Delaware River Region Art website
Charles and Anna Hankins Museum Lavallette Ocean Shore Region Maritime website, museum displays of wooden boats in storage while seeking new home
Children's Museum of Somerset County Bridgewater Somerset Skylands Region Children's website
Church of the Presidents (New Jersey) Long Branch Ocean Shore Region Historic church Former Episcopal chapel on the Jersey Shore where seven United States presidents worshiped
Collings-Knight House Collingswood Camden Delaware River Region Historic house website, operated by the Friends of Collings-Knight House
Colonial House Museum 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
Community Children's Museum Dover Morris Skylands Region Children's website
Cooper Mill Chester Township Morris Skylands Region Mill website, operated by the Morris County Park Commission
Cornelius Low House File:Low 100 0915.jpg Piscataway Middlesex 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 Cumberland 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 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
Craftsman Farms Parsipanny Morris Skylands Region Historic house Craftsman-style home of Gustav Stickley
Cranbury Museum Cranbury Middlesex Gateway Region Local history website, operated by the Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society
Crane House and Museum Montclair Essex Gateway Region Historic house Operated by the Montclair Historical Society, Federal mansion with 18th- and 19th-century furnishings
Cumberland County Prehistorical Museum Greenwich Township Cumberland South Jersey Archaeology information, operated by the Cumberland County Historical Society, stone and bone artifacts, pottery, native crafts, fossils
Delaware Bay Museum Bivalve Cumberland South Jersey Maritime website, operated by the Bayshore Discovery Project
Dennis Township Museum and History Center Dennis Township Cape May South Jersey Local history website
Denville Historical Society & Museum Denville Morris Skylands Region Local history information
Dey Mansion Wayne Passaic Gateway Region Historic house General George Washington’s revolutionary war headquarters in the Preakness Valley
Discovery Shell Museum Ocean City Cape May South Jersey Natural history website, retail store with museum display of over 10,000 species of seashells from all over the world
Dover History Museum Dover Morris Skylands Region Local history website, operated by the Dover Area Historical Society
Drake House Museum Plainfield Union Gateway Region Local history Building owned by the City of Plainfield, museum operated by the Historical Society of Plainfield
Drumthwacket Princeton Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house Official residence of the Governor of New Jersey, built in 1835
East Brunswick Museum East Brunswick Middlesex Gateway Region Local history website, operated by the East Brunswick Historical Society
East Jersey Olde Towne Village Piscataway Middlesex Gateway Region Open air website, includes church, tavern, schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, barracks and several homes
Edison National Historic Site File:Glenmont.jpg West Orange Essex Gateway Region Historic house 29 room Queen Ann-style mansion home of Thomas Edison and laboratory (under renovation)
Ellis Island Jersey City Hudson Gateway Region History Museum of immigration; ferry boats depart from Liberty State Park
Ely House Museum Hightstown Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house website, operated by the Hightstown-East Windsor Historical Society
Emlen Physick Estate Cape May Cape May South Jersey Living Victorian mansion, operated by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts
Evergreens (New Jersey) Montclair Essex 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 Burlington Delaware River Region Art Focuses on work of artist Eric Gibbons
Fleetwood Museum of Art and Photographica North Plainfield Somerset Skylands Region Photography website, cameras, photographic equipment, art and science of photography
Fleming Castle Museum Flemington Hunterdon Skylands Region Historic house 1756 house with history programs, also known as Samuel Fleming House
Fort Dix Military Museum Fort Dix Burlington Delaware River Region Military website
Fort Hancock Historic District Middletown Township Monmouth Central Jersey Multiple Part of Gateway National Recreation Area, includes the former coast artillery fort, location of America's oldest lighthouse, 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
Fort Lee Historic Park Fort Lee Bergen Gateway Region Military American Revolution fort site, center has exhibits about the fort
Fort Lee Museum Fort Lee Bergen 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 Sussex Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the Montague Association for Restoration of Community History
Fosterfields Living Historical Farm Morris Township 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
Franklin Mineral Museum Franklin Sussex Skylands Region Natural history Over 4000 mineral specimens with a large display of fluorescent minerals, mine replica, fossils, Native American artifacts
Garden State Discovery Museum Cherry Hill Camden Delaware River Region Children's website
Garretson Forge and Farm Fair Lawn Bergen Gateway Region Living Living Dutch farm museum
George F. Boyer Historical Museum Wildwood Cape May South Jersey Local history website, operated by the Wildwood Historical Society, includes National Marbles Hall of Fame, information and photos
George Segal Gallery Montclair Essex Gateway Region Art website, part of Montclair State University
Gibbon House Museum Greenwich Township Cumberland 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 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
Greenfield Hall Haddonfield 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
Griffth Morgan House Pennsauken Township Camden Delaware River Region Historic house website, 1715 stone house, open for special events, 3rd floor museum of local history
Grover Cleveland Birthplace Caldwell Essex Gateway Region Historic house Birthplace of President Grover Cleveland, artifacts from 1830s to 1850s
Grounds for Sculpture Hamilton Mercer Delaware River Region Art 35-acre (140,000 m2) sculpture park and indoor art gallery
Hackettstown Historical Society Museum Hackettstown Warren Skylands Region Local history website
Hamilton-Van Wagoner House Museum Clifton Passaic 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 Atlantic South Jersey Art website
Havens Homestead Museum Brick Ocean Shore Region Historic house website, information, operated by the Brick Township Historical Society
Hereford Inlet Light Wildwood Cape May South Jersey Lighthouse Victorian style keepers house and lighthouse
Heritage Glass Museum Glassboro Gloucester Delaware River Region Glass information, information,website
The Hermitage (New Jersey) Ho-Ho-Kus Bergen Gateway Region Historic house 18th-century Gothic revival home
Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum Oradell Bergen Gateway Region Art website, wildlife art
Historical Society of Bloomfield Museum Bloomfield Essex Gateway Region Local history website, located in the children's wing of the Bloomfield Public Library
Historical Society of Moorestown Moorestown Burlington Delaware River Region Local history website, located in the Smith-Cadbury Mansion
Historic Cold Spring Village Cape May 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 Monmouth Shore Region Living website, 1890s living historical farm located in Holmdel Park
Historic Speedwell Morristown 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
Historic Walnford Upper Freehold Monmouth 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 Hudson Gateway Region Local history
Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead Museum Lambertville 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
Holmes-Hendrickson House Holmdel Monmouth Shore Region Historic house Operated by the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum, 1754 Dutch farm house
Hope Historical Society Museum Hope Warren Skylands Region Local history information
Hopewell Museum Hopewell Mercer Delaware River Region Local history Includes antiques, Native American artifacts
Hopper-Goetschius House File:Hopper-Goetschius House.jpg Upper Saddle River Bergen Gateway Region Living Operated by the Upper Saddle River Historical Society, early-18th-century house
Howell Living History Farm Lambertville Hunterdon Skylands Region Agriculture Facility of the Mercer County Park Commission; 1900 living farm museum
Hungarian Heritage Center New Brunswick Middlesex Gateway Region Ethnic - Hungarian website, operated by the American Hungarian Foundation
Hunterdon Museum of Art Clinton Hunterdon Skylands Region Art website, contemporary art and design
Hunter-Lawrence-Jessup House Woodbury Gloucester Delaware River Region Local history Operated by the Gloucester County Historical Society
Imagine That Discovery Museum for Children Florham Park Morris Skylands Region Children's website
Indian King Tavern Museum Haddonfield Camden Delaware River Region Historic tavern website, more information, built in 1750, site where New Jersey was legally created
Infoage Science/History Learning Center Wall Monmouth Shore Region Multiple Science, history; located at Camp Evans, includes National Broadcasters Hall of Fame, New Jersey shipwrecks, military electronics,
Insectropolis Toms River Ocean Shore Region Natural history website, live and mounted insects, interactive exhibits
Ireland Hoffer House Williamstown Gloucester Gateway Region Historic house website, operated by the Monroe Township Historical Society
Island Heights Cottage Museum Island Heights Ocean Shore Region Historic house website, information, operated by the Island Heights Cultural & Heritage Association
Jack Allen Memorial Country Living Museum Southampton Burlington Delaware River Region History website, information and photos, country store, bank display, farm and country artifacts
Jacobus Vanderveer House & Museum Bedminster Township Somerset Skylands Region Historic house 18th-century Dutch frame house associated with the Pluckemin encampment of 1778-79
James Wilson Marshall House Lambertville Hunterdon Skylands Region Historic house Operated by the Lambertville Historical Society, mid-19th-century period house
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum 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
Jersey City Museum Jersey City Hudson Gateway Region Art American visual art and material culture
Jersey Explorer Children's Museum East Orange Essex Gateway Region Children's website
Jersey Shore Children's Museum Egg Harbor Atlantic South Jersey Children's website
Jewish Historical Society of MetroWest Whippany Morris 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 Essex Gateway Region Ethnic - Jewish Oldest synagogue in continuous use in Newark, exhibitions
Jim and Mary Lee Museum Phillipsburg Warren Skylands Region History information, information, site of Morris Canal Plane 9 West, canal buildings and turbine
Jim Kirk Maritime Museum Linwood Atlantic South Jersey Maritime website, information, operated by the Linwood Historical Society, ship models, maritime displays
John Abbot House Hamilton Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house information, look under Hamilton's History, 1730 colonial house
John Ballantine House Newark Essex Gateway Region Historic house Part of the Newark Museum
John DuBois Maritime Museum Greenwich Township Cumberland South Jersey Maritime website, operated by the Cumberland County Historical Society by appointment, builders' models of local craft, tools, blocks, riggings
John F. Peto Studio Museum Island Heights Ocean County Shore Region Historic house and art museum Opening 2011, museum devoted to the work of John F. Peto and housing contemporary art exhibits and programs.
Kearney House Alpine 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
Kearney Museum Kearney Hudson Gateway Region Local history website, located in the Kearney Public Library
Keyport Fire Museum Keyport Monmouth Shore Region Firefighting website, fire department history and fire prevention
King Store & Homestead Museum Ledgewood Morris Skylands Region Historic house Operated by the Roxbury Historic Trust
Kuser Farm Mansion Hamilton Mercer Delaware River Region Historic house website, information, information & photo
Lacey Schoolhouse Museum Forked River Ocean Shore Region Local history website, operated by the Lacey Historical Society
Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum Landing Morris Skylands Region Local history website, located on the grounds of Hopatcong State Park
Lakehurst Historical Society Museum Lakehurst Ocean Shore Region Local history website, look under Historical Society, information
Lakewood Heritage Commission Museum Lakewood Ocean Shore Region Local history website, information
Lambert Castle Paterson 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 Freehold Monmouth Shore Region Ethnic website, folk costumes, hand woven belts and blankets, colorful knitted woolen mittens, jewelry
Leedsville School Museum Linwood Atlantic South Jersey School website, operated by the Linwood Historical Society
"Lest We Forget" - Black Holocaust Museum of Slavery Lawnside Camden Delaware River Region History website, private collection of slavery artifacts and Jim Crow memorabilia, available by appointment
Liberty Hall Museum Elizabeth Union Gateway Region Historic house Victorian style mansion, located at Kean University
Liberty Science Center Jersey City Hudson Gateway Region Science Located in Liberty State Park
Little Red Schoolhouse File:River Road School.jpg Lyndhurst Bergen Gateway Region Local history Operated by the Lyndhurst Historical Society
Little Red Schoolhouse Museum Waretown Ocean Shore Region School information, operated by the Waretown Historical Society
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences Loveladies Ocean Shore Region Art website, free public art gallery
Long Beach Island Museum Beach Haven Ocean Shore Region Local history website, information, information, operated by the Long Beach Island Historical Association
Long Pond Ironworks State Park Hewitt Passaic Gateway Region Industry Includes Long Pond Ironworks Museum
Longport Museum Longport Atlantic South Jersey Local history website, operated by the Longport Historical Society
Loveland Homestead Museum Bay Head Ocean Shore Region Historic house website, information, operated by the Bay Head Historical Society, 19th-century period farmhouse
Macculloch Hall Historical Museum Morristown Morris 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 Camden Delaware River Region Local history website
MacKenzie Museum Howell Monmouth Shore Region Historic house website, operated by the Howell Historical Society
Margate Historical Society & Museum Margate Atlantic South Jersey Local history website
Marine Mammal Stranding Center & Museum Atlantic City Atlantic South Jersey Natural history website, wildlife rehabilitation center for marine animals, natural history museum
Marlpit Hall Middletown Monmouth 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
Maywood Station Museum Maywood Bergen Gateway Region Railway Historic train station and exhibits of railroad artifacts
Meadowlands Museum Rutherford Bergen Gateway Region Local history Antique toys, rocks and minerals, period rooms, changing exhibits
Mead-Van Duyne Historic House Museum Wayne Passaic 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 Union Gateway Region Historic tavern website, early tavern life and stagecoach transportation
Metlar-Bodine House Piscataway Middlesex Gateway Region Historic house Closed for renovations
Metz Bicycle Museum Freehold Monmouth 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 Cape May South Jersey Multiple website, operates Emlen Physick Estate, Cape May Light, Carriage House Gallery, tours and special events
Millbrook Village Blairstown Warren 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 Essex Gateway Region Local history website, located at the Short Hills train station
Miller-Cory House Westfield Union Gateway Region Living 18th-century farmhouse with costumed docents demonstrating colonial crafts
Millville Army Airfield Museum Millville 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 County Historical Association Museum Freehold Monmouth Shore Region Local history website, art, furniture, ceramics, textiles, military artifacts
Monmouth Museum Lincroft Monmouth 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 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
Montville Township Historical Museum Montville Morris Skylands Region Local history website
Morris Museum Morristown Morris Skylands Region Multiple Costumes and textiles, fine art, decorative art, dolls and toys, natural science, geology, paleontology, anthropology
Morris Plains Museum Morris Plains Morris Skylands Region Local history website
Morristown National Historical Park Morristown Morris 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 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 Middletown Monmouth Shore Region Agriculture website, agriculture and horticulture exhibits
Mount Tabor Historical Society Museum Mount Tabor Morris Skylands Region Local history website, located at the Short Hills train station
Museum of Early Trades & Crafts Madison Morris 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 Ocean Shore Region Maritime website
Museum of the Historical Society of Ocean Grove 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 Russian Art Jersey City Hudson Gateway Region Art Contemporary Russian art
Museum of White Township White Township Warren Skylands Region Local history information, operated by the White Township Historical Society
Nail House Museum Bridgeton Cumberland South Jersey Local history information
Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum Lower Township Cape May South Jersey Aviation 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 Monmouth Shore Region Lighthouse Lighthouse and museum
Navy Lakehurst Information Center Lakehurst 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
Nelden-Roberts Stonehouse Montague Sussex Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the Montague Association for Restoration of Community History
Newark Museum Newark Essex 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 Bridge Landing River Edge Bergen Gateway Region Local & National History website, In the American Revolution, New Bridge served as a battleground, encampment ground, military headquarters and intelligence gathering post throughout the war. The Steuben House served as Gen. Washington's headquarters in 1780. 3 Jersey-Dutch sandstone building at "the bridge that saved a nation."
New Egypt Museum New Egypt Ocean Shore Region Local history website, information, operated by the New Egypt Historical Society
New Jersey Children's Museum Paramus Bergen Gateway Region Children's website, for toddlers and preschoolers
New Jersey Firefighters Museum Boonton Morris 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 Newark Essex 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 Middlesex Gateway Region Agriculture Past, present and future of agriculture in New Jersey
New Jersey Museum of Boating Point Pleasant Ocean Shore Region Maritime website
New Jersey Naval Museum Hackensack Bergen Gateway Region Maritime Home of USS Ling (SS-297), a World War II submarine
New Jersey State House Trenton Mercer Delaware River Region State capitol
New Jersey State Museum Trenton Mercer Delaware River Region Multiple Archaeology/ethnology, cultural history, fine art and natural history
New Jersey State Police Museum and Learning Center West Trenton Mercer Delaware River Region Law enforcement website
New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center Phillipsburg Warren Skylands Region Transportation website, historic bus and trolley collection, planned museum
New Sweden Farmstead Museum Bridgeton Cumberland 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 Sussex Skylands Region Firefighting website
Northfield Museum and Casto House Northfield Atlantic South Jersey Local history information, located in Birch Grove Park
Northlandz Flemington Hunterdon 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 Atlantic South Jersey Art website
Nutley Museum Nutley Essex Gateway Region Local history 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 Morris Skylands Region Mill website, operated by the Washington Township Land Trust
Ocean City Arts Center Ocean City 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
Ocean County Museum Toms River Ocean Shore Region Historic house website, information, Victorian period Pierson Sculthorpe House with period rooms, exhibits on local history
Ocean Gate Museum Ocean Gate Ocean Shore Region Railroad website, information, Victorian period Pierson Sculthorpe House with period rooms, exhibits on local history
Old Ardena Schoolhouse Howell Monmouth Shore Region School website, operated by the Howell Historical Society
Old Barracks Museum Trenton Mercer Delaware River Region History American colonial life and the American Revolution
Old Dutch Parsonage Somerville Somerset Skylands Region Historic house Adjacent to the Wallace House
Old Monroe Schoolhouse Hardyston Township Sussex Skylands Region School website
Old Schoolhouse and Firehouse Museum Ogdensburg Sussex Skylands Region School website, open by appointment by the Ogdensburg Historical Society
Pascack Historical Society Museum Park Ridge Bergen Gateway Region Local history website, also known as the John C. Storms Museum
Paterson Museum 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
Paulsdale Mount Laurel Burlington Delaware River Region Biographical Home of suffragette Alice Paul
Pennsville Township Historical Society Museum Pennsville Township Salem Delaware River Region Local history website
Pequannock Museum Pompton Plains Morris Skylands Region Local history website
Perkins Center for the Arts Collingswood Camden 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 Burlington 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 Camden Delaware River Region History website, operated by the Lawnside Historical Society; station house along the Underground Railroad
Phillipsburg Historical Society Phillipsburg Warren Skylands Region Local history website, library, museum and office
Phillipsburg Railroad Historians Museum Phillipsburg Warren Skylands Region Railroad website
Point Pleasant Historical Society Museum Point Pleasant Ocean Shore Region Local history website, information
Pomona Hall Camden Camden Delaware River Region Historic house Operated by the Camden County Historical Society, 18th-century period decorated mansion
Princeton University Art Museum Princeton Mercer Delaware River Region Art Mediterranean regions, Western Europe, China, United States, and Latin America
Printmaking Council of New Jersey Somerville Somerset Skylands Region Art lasses, workshops and gallery with changing exhibits of prints
Proprietary House Perth Amboy 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 Jackson Ocean Shore Region School information, open by appointment
Ralston General Store Ralston Morris Skylands Region Historic store website, operated by the Ralston Historical Association, 1785 general store and post office
Randolph Museum Randolph Morris Skylands Region Local history website, operated by the Historical Society of Old Randolph
Readington Township Museums Readington Township Hunterdon Skylands Region Multiple website, includes Bouman-Stickney Farmstead, the Eversole-Hall House, the Cold Brook School, Taylors Mill
Red Mill Museum Village Clinton Hunterdon Skylands Region Open air website, historic mill, local history exhibits
Ridgewood Schoolhouse Museum Ridgewood Bergen Gateway Region Local history website, operated by the Ridgewood Historical Society
Ringwood Manor Ringwood Passaic Gateway Region Historic house Located in Ringwood State Park, 19th- and 20th-century great estate mansion
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum Atlantic City Atlantic South Jersey Odditorium
Risley Homestead Northfield Atlantic South Jersey Historic house website, 1790 cottage, operated by the Atlantic Heritage Center
Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts Millville Cumberland South Jersey Art website
Rockingham House Kingston Somerset Skylands Region Living Also known as Berrien Mansion, preserved and interpreted as the temporary residence of George and Martha Washington
Roebling Museum Roebling Burlington Delaware River Region Industry website, planned museum at former John A. Roebling's Sons Company steel mill
Roundhouse Museum Egg Harbor City Atlantic South Jersey Local history website, operated by the Egg Harbor City Historical Society
Rutgers University Geology Museum New Brunswick Middlesex 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 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 Cape May South Jersey Local history website
Sarnoff Museum Ewing Mercer Delaware River Region Biographical Artifacts transferred from the David Sarnoff Library (previous website) to The College of New Jersey and annexed to its art gallery in 2009. Museum to open in 2011.
Schuyler-Colfax Historic House Museum Wayne Passaic Gateway Region Historic house Operated by the Wayne Township Parks and Recreation Department, 1695 colonial house
Schuyler-Hamilton 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 & Cultural Center Seabrook 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 Isle City Historical Society Museum Sea Isle City Cape May South Jersey Local history website, open by appointment
Shippen Manor Museum File:Shippen Manor.jpg Oxford Warren Skylands Region Historic house Operated by the Warren County Cultural & Heritage Commission, restored 18th-century stone mansion
Shore Institute for Contemporary Art Long Branch Ocean Shore Region Art
Skylands Manor Ringwood Passaic Gateway Region Historic house Located in Ringwood State Park, 1920s forty-four-room English Jacobean mansion
Silas Riggs Saltbox House Ledgewood Morris Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the Roxbury Township Historical Society
Silver Ball Museum Asbury Park Monmouth South Jersey Amusement website, museum and arcade
Snowmobile Barn Museum Fredon Sussex Skylands Region Transportation website, collection of over 300 sleds along with toys, ornaments, jewelry, advertisements
Solitude House Museum High Bridge Hunterdon Skylands Region Historic house website, operated by the High Bridge Union Forge Heritage Association
Somers Point Historical Museum Somers Point Atlantic South Jersey Local history website, operated by the Somers Point Historical Society
Somerville Fire Department Museum File:West End Hose Company 3.jpg Somerville Somerset Skylands Region Firefighting Old fire engines and memorabilia
South Jersey Museum of American History Glassboro Gloucester Delaware River Region History information
South Jersey Railroad Museum Tuckahoe Cape May South Jersey Railroad website, model railroad displays
Space Farms Zoo and Museum Sussex 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 Monmouth Shore Region Local history website
Stafford Township Heritage Park Stafford Township Ocean Shore Region Open air website, information, operated by the Stafford Township Historical Society
Statue of Liberty National Monument 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 Keyport 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 Center for the Arts at Rutgers-Camden
Sterling Hill Mining Museum Ogdensburg Sussex Skylands Region Geology Underground zinc mine and Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence
Steven Crane House Museum Asbury Park Monmouth South Jersey Biographical website, home of author Stephen Crane
Stillwater Township Historical Museum Stillwater Township Sussex Skylands Region Local history website, located in an old school house, operated by the Historical Society of Stillwater Township
Stone Harbor Museum Stone Harbor Cape May South Jersey Local history website
Stone Museum Monroe Township Middlesex Gateway Region Geology website, minerals, fossils, tools, fluorescent minerals room
Sussex County Art & Heritage Council Newton Sussex Skylands Region Art website
Sussex County Historical Society Museum Newton Sussex Skylands Region Local history website, located in the Hill Memorial building
Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum Menlo Park Middlesex Gateway Region Technology Also known as Menlo Park Museum, showcases many of the inventions of Thomas Edison
Toms River Maritime Museum Toms River Ocean Shore Region Maritime website, operated by the Toms River Seaport Society
Township of Hamilton Historical Society Museum Mays Landing Atlantic South Jersey Local history website
Township of Lebanon Museum at New Hampton Hampton Hunterdon Skylands Region School website, information
Township of Ocean Historical Museum Oakhurst Monmouth Shore Region Local history website
Trailside Nature & Science Center Mountainside Union Gateway Region Natural history website, museum exhibits include mammals and birds of the Watchung Reservation, taxidermy and fluorescent minerals
Trenton City Museum Trenton Mercer 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 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
United States Bicycling Hall of Fame Bridgewater Somerset Skylands Region Hall of fame Dedicated to preserving the sport of cycling
United States Golf Association Museum Far Hills Somerset Skylands Region Sports Golf memorabilia and artifacts
Van Riper-Hopper Historic House Museum Wayne Passaic Gateway Region Historic house 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 Sussex Skylands Region Historic house Operated by the Chinkchewunska Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey Summit Union Gateway Region Art website, includes 3 galleries and a sculpture park
Wallace House Somerville Somerset Skylands Region Historic house 1775 Georgian-style house adjacent to Old Dutch Parsonage
Walsh Gallery South Orange Essex Gateway Region Art website, part of Seton Hall University
Walt Whitman House Camden Camden Delaware River Region Biographical Home of poet Walt Whitman
Warren County Historical Society and Museum Belvidere Warren Skylands Region Local history website, period rooms, Warren County memorabilia, antiques, textiles and folk art
Washington Crossing State Park Stanhope Sussex 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 Morris Skylands Region Local history website, website
Waterhouse Museum Toms River Ocean 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 Sussex Skylands Region National Registered Historic Site in Allamuchy Mountain State Park
West Milford Museum West Milford Passaic Gateway Region Local history website
Weston Museum Newark Essex Gateway Region History, Science
Westwood Museum Westwood Bergen Gateway Region Local history website, operated by the Westwood Heritage Society; located in the Westwood Train Station
Wetlands Institute Stone Harbor Cape May South Jersey Natural history website
WheatonArts Millville Cumberland South Jersey Art Houses Museum of Glass
Whippany Railway Museum Whippany Morris Skylands Region Transportation - Railroad Railroad cars and memorabilia
William Trent House 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
Wortendyke Barn Museum File:Wortendyke Barn 2010.jpg Park Ridge Bergen Gateway Region Agriculture Old-world Dutch barn and farm exhibits
Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center Little Falls Passaic 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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