New Jersey Museums


General and Multiple Theme Museums

  • The Bergen Museum of Art and Science - The Museum serves the community by providing venues for important exhibits, cultural expression which includes music, sculpture and photography, as well as the sciences through its programs contributing to the region's quality of life. Located in Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ.
  • The Morris Museum - The Museum is the third largest museum in New Jersey. It has permanent exhibitions on Natural Science, Rocks and Minerals, Dinosaurs and Fossils, Dolls and Toys, American Indian Gallery, and a Colonial Kitchen, as well as changing programs on art, anthropological topics, antiques, etc. Located in Morristown, Morris County, NJ.
  • The Newark Museum - This facility houses a mini zoo, planetarium, and natural science center. It also has an extensive art collection including Asian, American, Tibetan, and African, art from the Americas and the Pacific, decorative arts, as well as Egyptian, Greek and Roman art. A true gem located in Newark, Essex County, NJ.
  • New Jersey State Museum - Established in 1895, the New Jersey State Museum is a general museum that collects, exhibits and interprets in four broad areas of interest: natural history, archaeology/ethnology, cultural history, and fine art. Located in Trenton, Mercer County, NJ
Museums for Children

  • Children's Museum of NJ - The Museum has over thirty different exhibits, in 15,000 square feet. This includes "hands-on" and interactive exhibits, arts and crafts, story hours, participatory skits, puppets, costumes, science fun, a real fire truck, a real helicopter, a play hospital, a fossil cave, and a kids ballet studio, just to name a few. Located in Paramus, NJ.
Art Museums

  • The Montclair Art Museum - View sculptures and paintings from the collection, find out about exhibitions, and get information about educational programs. Located in Montclair, Essex County, NJ.
  • Noyes Museum of Art - Founded in 1982, the Noyes features a collection of 19th and 20th century American fine art, craft and regional folk art. It also hosts travelling exhibitions and works by leading regional artists. Located in Galloway Township, NJ.
  • The Princeton University Art Museum - Collection Includes Far Eastern Art especially Chinese. There are permanent and temporary exhibitions as well as gallery talks. Located in Princeton, NJ.
  • SMA African Art Museum - The Museum organizes three to five exhibitions a year in its 2000 square foot exhibition space. Most of these are from the collection of approximately 1000 pieces of traditional African art. There are also several loan exebitions annually. Located in Tenafly, NJ.
Historic Homes

  • Cornelius Low House - Middlesex County Museum - Built in 1741 as the home of a wealthy merchant of Dutch ancestry, this two-story stone house is now the Middlesex County Museum, presenting changing exhibits about state and local history, with related school, outreach, and public programs. Located in Piscataway, Middlesex County, NJ.
  • Ellarslie Mansion - The Trenton City Museum - Ellarslie, an Italianate villa, was built in 1848. The Museum houses an extensive collection of ceramic and porcelain, which includes redware, stoneware, yellow ware, ironstone, tile, architectural terra-cotta, and art pottery. Also on display is a permanent collection of fine and decorative arts, cultural history, and industrial artifacts, nearly all manufactured in Trenton. Located in Cadwalader Park, Trenton, Mercer County, NJ.
  • Grover Cleveland's Birthplace - This site houses the most complete collection of Cleveland artifacts in the nation; including the president’s cradle, White House chair, clothing and fishing gear among many others. Explore the world of Grover Cleveland’s early youth from the 1830s-1850s, on the 2.5 acre grounds, and period kitchen, rear parlor and birthroom. Located in Caldwell, Essex County, NJ.
  • Kirch-Ford House - This farm house dates ca. 1750 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A bee-hive oven, a walk-in fireplace, pine flooring, and a secret room that may have been a stopping-place on the pre-Civil War underground railroad are among its many features. The house is generally open for viewing on the 2nd Sunday of each month, but check the papers or call first. (The link is to the Warren Township Historical Society website. Click on "Historical Sites", "Events" and "Contact Us" for information.) Located in Warren, Somerset County, NJ.
  • Miller-Cory House - This living museum is a farmhouse of brace and beam construction, and nogging filled walls, a homestead of the mid-18th century. It was begun in 1740 and completed before 1782. Located in Westfield, Union County, NJ.
  • East Jersey Olde Towne Village - The Village is a collection of original, replica and reconstructed 18th and 19th century buildings. which were moved from other locations in central and northern New Jersey. Most of the buildings were relocated to the site, while others were constructed. to represent the vernacular architecture typical of farm and merchant communities of central New Jersey. Located in Piscataway, Middlesex County, NJ.
  • Whippany Railway Museum - The Museum provides and perserves the history of the New Jersey Railway System. Located in Whippany, Morris County, NJ.
History, Archaeology and Anthropology Museums

  • John T. Brennan Fire Museum - The "Bayonne Hook and Ladder Co. #1" received their charter on November 22nd, 1870. They held their first meeting in their new firehouse on June 10th, 1875, at 10 West 47th Street. On October 15, 1979, the now-restored building was dedicated as the Bayonne Firefighter's Museum. Located in Bayonne, NJ
  • The Museum of American Glass - This is the largest museum in the country dedicated to preserving the history of glass made in the United States. The the 20,000 square foot facility is modeled after one of Cape May's elegant Victorian era hotels and holds over 6,500 pieces from the museum's permanent collection. Located in Wheaton Village, Cape May County, NJ
  • Hungarian Folklore Museum - The Amerikai Magyar Folklór Múzeum was established to preserve, exhibit and cultivate Hungarian culture in one of the largest Hungarian communities in the United States. Located in Passaic, Bergen County, NJ.
  • New Jersey Naval Museum - The New Jersey Naval Museum is the home of the World War II submarine USS LING, SS-297. Exhibits include the USS LING, a PBR MkII Vietnam era River Patrol Boat. Located in Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ.
  • New Sweden Farmstead Museum - In 1638 a company of Swedes and Ethnic Finns, under the impetus of Dutch political and commercial interests, set sail for the New World. At a site near present day Salem, New Jersey, they erected "Old Fort Elfsborg". Located in Bridgeton, NJ.
  • The Old Barracks Museum - Enter the Old Barracks Museum and learn how your independence was won by rebel Colonists. Located in Trenton, Mercer County, NJ.
  • Powhatan Renape Nation's American Indian Heritage Museum - The museum, which is the only Indian owned and operated one in NJ, offers a unique, multifaceted look at American Indian culture. It is located on the Rankokus Indian Reservation in Westampton Township, Burlington County, NJ.
  • Waterloo Village - Begun as an iron works in the 1760s, the village, an 1880s Morris Canal town, boasts artisans practicing 18th & 19th Century trades & crafts, an authentically recreated Lenape Indian village, an 1825 log home and farm, and much more. Located in Stanhope, Sussex County, NJ.
Science Museums

  • NJ Museum of Agriculture - The permanent exhibition presents a three century chronology of farming in New Jersey, and includes over 3000 artifacts. Cook Colleg Campus, New Brunswick, NJ
  • Rutgers Geology Museum - RGM, on the Rutgers New Brunswick campus, Middlesex County, is open to the public and features exhibits on geology and anthropology, with an emphasis on the natural history of New Jersey.



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